Bookshelf/Workspace #2: Second Day Build.

I’m beat ladies and gentleman. Whupped. Snowed today (gives away my region of the US). After going sledding and doing doughnuts in the municipal police parking lot during lunch, I got back to work and taught/learned some woodworking.

All the supports are finished, and the dadoes and lap joints are cut out. For the lap joints, (and dadoes) I set the depth on the circ saw and made a number of cuts through the waste wood. Then I took a chisel with some of the children and malleted (with mallets they made! check the pics) away the waste. It worked to a fashion, but mostly it let the kids get comfertable with wood chisels and give me impetus to actually learn how to put a better edge on them. Good times all around.

Then, we brought out the block plane and smoothed out the joints, screwed and glued the top frame together, and called it a day. Seriously, some notes: 1) the kids got a real kick outta the plane, and so did I. Really, the first time I used one for a project and it did a great and quick job of it. It surprised me, I thought they like the power (insert Tim Allen sound here) but alas, hand tools took the day. 2) I NEED MORE PLANES.

So onto the rest. A trip to Home Depot (oh, man! Not again!), a day of dry fitting, maybe some pics midway through next week.