Where have I been?
Well I have been busy with a new project that was commissioned a few years ago… I have been putting it off because of the sheer immensity of the project…even though it is small in size the amount of production work is daunting…
The new project is a 35 drawer Apothecary Cabinet... I am thinking that the main carcass will be New Guinea Rosewood.. as will the drawer fronts…. the sides and backs of the drawers will be Hoop Pine....
To give you and idea I have taken photos of some of the various processes…
To start the lumber was ripped to size and then resawn on the bandsaw ….then off to the thicknesser to mill it to correct thickness… the result was nearly 4 metres of NGR and over 10 metres of HP.... 72 mm by 10 mm… this is just for the drawers… not including cutting 35 small pieces of ply for the bottoms…Notice I am using the Magswitch Bandsaw Ripping Fence... nice piece of kit.. works extremely well.
The lengths were then cut to 100 mm using the table saw and the Mitre Express by Incra... with a Magswitch 30 mm Jig acting as a stop… [see pic…]
Here is a shot of the components for the drawers.
Once all 140 pieces were cut to size it was off to the Router and the Leigh D4R dovetail jig with the fingerjoint template…
I also have the VRS vacuum system attached..
Here is a close up of the drawer part being routered.
Now all the fronts and backs are routered with the template in one position and then the template is moved sideways for the sides to be routered.
Once the Leigh has been set up… the ease and simplicity of use is outstanding…
Clamp, route, unclamp, rotate, clamp, route, unclamp. Repeat 140 times..
So far this project has 4 hours invested…
Dry fit of first drawer box…
Next step is routing grooves along the bottom of each and every piece to accept the ply base…This will be accomplished safely on the router table…. on the side pieces this groove will be stopped.. so as not to cut through the edges and have a hole in the facefront…
Stops have been set on the router table fence…
More next episode..
Well I have been busy with a new project that was commissioned a few years ago… I have been putting it off because of the sheer immensity of the project…even though it is small in size the amount of production work is daunting…
The new project is a 35 drawer Apothecary Cabinet... I am thinking that the main carcass will be New Guinea Rosewood.. as will the drawer fronts…. the sides and backs of the drawers will be Hoop Pine....
To give you and idea I have taken photos of some of the various processes…
To start the lumber was ripped to size and then resawn on the bandsaw ….then off to the thicknesser to mill it to correct thickness… the result was nearly 4 metres of NGR and over 10 metres of HP.... 72 mm by 10 mm… this is just for the drawers… not including cutting 35 small pieces of ply for the bottoms…Notice I am using the Magswitch Bandsaw Ripping Fence... nice piece of kit.. works extremely well.
The lengths were then cut to 100 mm using the table saw and the Mitre Express by Incra... with a Magswitch 30 mm Jig acting as a stop… [see pic…]
Once all 140 pieces were cut to size it was off to the Router and the Leigh D4R dovetail jig with the fingerjoint template…
I also have the VRS vacuum system attached..
Here is a close up of the drawer part being routered.
Once the Leigh has been set up… the ease and simplicity of use is outstanding…
Clamp, route, unclamp, rotate, clamp, route, unclamp. Repeat 140 times..
So far this project has 4 hours invested…
Dry fit of first drawer box…
Next step is routing grooves along the bottom of each and every piece to accept the ply base…This will be accomplished safely on the router table…. on the side pieces this groove will be stopped.. so as not to cut through the edges and have a hole in the facefront…
Stops have been set on the router table fence…
More next episode..