3 days ago
by NBeener |
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My wife’s grandson is somehow about to turn two.
Time to turn him on to tools, huh?
That’s the primary reason I’ve been taking a whack at dovetail joints.
The tool box is in dry fit, right now. In the next day or two, I’ll move to glue-up.
The cuts in the ends of the handle are for wedge/shims to hold the handle in place.
The pics:
....Current plan is to fill it with something like this…..
I did something wrong with the plywood bottom. The ...
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15 days ago
by Bahremu |
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Last year i built a simple train table for my children. It’s functional and they love it. This year my youngest son’s pre-school is soliciting donations for their annual fundraising auction. I will donate a newly made train table. This time more nicely built one.
As lots of lumberjocks have built a train table for their children and/or grandchildren, we all know it’s a flat top with an apron that provides a small lip. I’ve decided that this project will be wher...
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96 days ago
by PurpLev |
13 comments »
As I mentioned in my recent workbench blog, I had used inverted dovetail joinery to connect the skirt of the benchtop to the endcap. just like Arabian Nights, there are 1001 stories why joinery can get screwed up- mine were rushing + miscalculating + lack of experience + other. All of these matter not, and the end result is a misaligned, crooked, awfully looking, and unacceptable dovetail fit:
you can plainly see the tearout and large gaps between the mating parts, and the misalignment...
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98 days ago
by PurpLev |
10 comments »
Didn’t have much shoptime lately, which made me try to squeeze every moment I got to try and make the most of it, which lead to rushing, which lead to screw up – but I’ll write more about that in a following installment and leave this one a bit more on the positive side.
Last time I ran into the issue of having a not-square top part to work with. I fixed that by routing the edge at a 0.1 degree angle to straighten the front of the slab and make it parallel to the front 2 ...
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133 days ago
by PurpLev |
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Picking up where I last left off (each leg glued, and hand planed to clean out the glue lines), It was now time to get some assembly done.
First thing First – gotta trim all legs to same length/height since during glue up some boards decided to move about. I decided to use a reference point that I could use on all legs that would match them all up – since different legs had different boards that moved around – the only reference point that I could use (and the best one of...
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167 days ago
by skywalker01 |
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I’ve just finished cutting the tails out with the hand saw. Here I am working on chiseling the tails to the lines that I marked out with a marking guage. I had some troubles getting them to fit with no gaps and realized that I hadn’t chiseled enough of an angle out so that the edges fit snugly. After doing that they fit great. I have the faces of both drawers matched so that it hopefully looks like they come from the same board. I marked inside the joint with numbers so that I kne...
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198 days ago
by Loogie |
7 comments »
After several weeks of working on hanging doors, trim work and building a bathroom vanity I finally got a chance to finish up my workbench. One of the features that really attracted me to this workbench design in the first place was the reversible tool trays. I really don’t like the idea of having a big trough running down the middle of my bench, but being able to flip the trays over and have flat surface was very appealing. I decided to dovetail the trays rather than use the rabbet joi...
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201 days ago
by Jim |
15 comments »
This is a dovetail jig I’m working on from some plans of an old Shop Notes Magazine. The original plans called for Cherry but I used White Oak. I also extended the original jig an extra foot so it would be able to cut bigger pieces. It’s still only 75% done, I still have to make the template fingers, but I’m waiting on my new locking router plate and bushings before I cut the clearances and angles of the fingers.
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203 days ago
by PurpLev |
4 comments »
Finally after getting the table saw and tuning it, I’m able to get back on track with woodworking projects…
I still dont have my router table, so using the incra fence wouldn’t be possible to get the dovetails done. I read “The Bandsaw Book”, and it had a really nice Jig for making dovetails on the bandsaw with handcut look and fit, but with the automation of a machine and jig. I really liked the idea, and figured I’d use that technique.
unfortunatel...
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225 days ago
by Greg3G |
10 comments »
It was a pretty good day, despite the gray weather outside. I arrived at the show today with a short list of things to accomplish.
Highest on my priority list was to get my battery issue for my Makita 18v Li solved. 3 of the 4 batteries have for it have gone bad, in less than 20 charges. I dropped by the booth yesterday and spoke with the district manager and he asked that I bring them in so they could test and replace them if needed. Got this done right away. Nice guys and eager to get th...
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