148 days ago
by PurpLev |
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July, and it was pouring rain here in Boston, MA. for the past week. go figure. (although today it cleared out which is really nice). but enough about the weather (as if this will stop us).
After completing the basic construction for the leg ends last installment. It was now the time to connect those with rails. The rails are 45” long with 2 1/2” tenon sticking on each side (to a total length of 50” – do the math). They are made of 2 2×4 that were jointed/plane...
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163 days ago
by skywalker01 |
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I set up the router table to make the slots for the slide rails. I just used a 1/2” straight bit to make the groove and I sized my rails to fit later.
So here I used a chisel to square up the fronts of the grooves that I just routed. This is not really necessary it will just make it easier to adjust the drawers forward or backward if they don’t line up just right, Which they didn’t in the end. I had to remove just a bit more towards the front on one side so that they ...
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318 days ago
by Thomas MacDonald |
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In this episode, Tommy starts milling the wood with the jointer & table saw. He also goes over useful thoughts to optimize grain wood selection to get nice grain flow with the top and bottom rails.
T-Chisel
This is the final project
Blanket Chest Procedure Info
Blanket Chest Forum Thread
The Rough Cut Show
Join Pallet Makers Local 207
Thomas J. MacDonald Fine Furniture
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525 days ago
by Jon3 |
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Now that big power switch hangs out way on the left. Got to neaten that up a bit.
Oh, and I nearly forgot, look at the new rip fence max distance! Whoo hoo!
Almost 35 inches!
Anyway, back to the power switch.
I simply unbolt the big green steel plate it is attached to.
And the big angled support arm.
Hrm. The big green mounting plate can’t simply be removed, as they ran the electrical through it. Damn.
Guess I have to de-wire and re-wire it.
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