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It starts with a need and an idea

I've been told I need to find a home other than my kitchen table for my planes that have taken up residence.I've been hesitant to move them to the shop - mainly because my shop is like most - no a/c or heat with a decent amount of humidity. I decided as my first foray into the world of joinery and hand tools I'd build a quasi portable till. I'm no expert in Sketchup and I'm sure there's a few mistakes that I haven't discovered yet, but here's the idea!

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I have a few projects to finish up before this one can get started so consider this a place holder. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be getting started on this!

EDIT* Completely missed giving mad props to Mosquito for the idea! his portable plane till got me started in this direction!
 

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#2 ·
It starts with a need and an idea

I've been told I need to find a home other than my kitchen table for my planes that have taken up residence.I've been hesitant to move them to the shop - mainly because my shop is like most - no a/c or heat with a decent amount of humidity. I decided as my first foray into the world of joinery and hand tools I'd build a quasi portable till. I'm no expert in Sketchup and I'm sure there's a few mistakes that I haven't discovered yet, but here's the idea!

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I have a few projects to finish up before this one can get started so consider this a place holder. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be getting started on this!

EDIT* Completely missed giving mad props to Mosquito for the idea! his portable plane till got me started in this direction!
Beka

These are in my garage and the Air Con exhaust is vented outside along with the water thru the outside wall.

http://www.menards.com/main/appliances/air-conditioners-dehumidifiers/soleus-10000-btu-portable-air-conditioner-with-remote/p-2724074-c-19444.htm

http://www.menards.com/main/appliances/air-conditioners-dehumidifiers/soleus-air-30-pint-dehumidifier/p-2724068-c-19444.htm

Both of them are well worth it.
 

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#3 ·
It starts with a need and an idea

I've been told I need to find a home other than my kitchen table for my planes that have taken up residence.I've been hesitant to move them to the shop - mainly because my shop is like most - no a/c or heat with a decent amount of humidity. I decided as my first foray into the world of joinery and hand tools I'd build a quasi portable till. I'm no expert in Sketchup and I'm sure there's a few mistakes that I haven't discovered yet, but here's the idea!

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I have a few projects to finish up before this one can get started so consider this a place holder. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be getting started on this!

EDIT* Completely missed giving mad props to Mosquito for the idea! his portable plane till got me started in this direction!
.... Hopefully by the end of the summer I ll be getting started on this!

- rhybeka
That would lend itself to a completion date….
sometime this millennium!!! ;^)
 

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It starts with a need and an idea

I've been told I need to find a home other than my kitchen table for my planes that have taken up residence.I've been hesitant to move them to the shop - mainly because my shop is like most - no a/c or heat with a decent amount of humidity. I decided as my first foray into the world of joinery and hand tools I'd build a quasi portable till. I'm no expert in Sketchup and I'm sure there's a few mistakes that I haven't discovered yet, but here's the idea!

Rectangle Wood Door Wood stain Floor plan


I have a few projects to finish up before this one can get started so consider this a place holder. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be getting started on this!

EDIT* Completely missed giving mad props to Mosquito for the idea! his portable plane till got me started in this direction!
Thanks Arlin! My shop will be having new digs next year so I'll be trying to fit those items into the budget for the new building. :)

Randy - LOL how true :)
 

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#5 ·
Slow and steady progress

Besides that this is my first foray into hand tools, I'd say it's going fairly well. I decided to build a false front so the planes would rest at an angle. I changed the layout from the original a bit. I was leaning all of the planes in to take a picture, and the #4 decided to fall out. Luckily I was there to catch it, and there's a couch directly beneath the till. This concerned me a bit though for obvious reasons. I'm planning on putting 3 rare earth magnets under the 7, 2 underneath the 5,4,3, router plane and possibly the rabbet plane, and 1 under the block planes. just wondering if that's enough?
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Slow and steady progress

Besides that this is my first foray into hand tools, I'd say it's going fairly well. I decided to build a false front so the planes would rest at an angle. I changed the layout from the original a bit. I was leaning all of the planes in to take a picture, and the #4 decided to fall out. Luckily I was there to catch it, and there's a couch directly beneath the till. This concerned me a bit though for obvious reasons. I'm planning on putting 3 rare earth magnets under the 7, 2 underneath the 5,4,3, router plane and possibly the rabbet plane, and 1 under the block planes. just wondering if that's enough?
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I would guess that adding the magnets will take care of it. Can you test it to make sure?
 

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Almost! But not quite!

I took some time yesterday afternoon and got the holes drilled for the magnets and the epoxy in. There's a bit of staining or residue from the mineral spirits I used to clean up the epoxy dribbles I had - hopefully it won't inhibit finishing at all :) so far so good. The magnets seem like they will hold nicely. I'll see when I get home tonight if any of them decided to free fall.

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Almost! But not quite!

I took some time yesterday afternoon and got the holes drilled for the magnets and the epoxy in. There's a bit of staining or residue from the mineral spirits I used to clean up the epoxy dribbles I had - hopefully it won't inhibit finishing at all :) so far so good. The magnets seem like they will hold nicely. I'll see when I get home tonight if any of them decided to free fall.

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Looks great, Beka!
 

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Plane till awaits finish - dutch tool chest in process

so for those of you following along on this journey of mine that seriously resembles one of Billy's walks from the Family Circus cartoons, the plane till is working fabulously and is mostly complete. I still need to mount a small ledge for my router plane, and figure out how to mount my Stanley 78 up there and voila! I may also turn half of the bottom ledge into a drawer space to hold fences and such but for now - it's doing what I need it to do.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine disassembled shelves in her home and asked me if I'd like the wood. 15-20 year old s4s 3/4" 1X12 pine. Sure! I drove over and loaded it all in my truck. She asked me what I was going to do with it. I said - I don't know but I'll try to think of something good. I started thinking about all the times I travel and would like to have a small bench and tool chest to go with me that I could work on small projects with. I was intrigued by Chris Schwartz's article on the Dutch tool chest and decided to go for it.

I rough cut the front, sides, bottom and back boards to length. I got a little ahead of the game when I was looking at the boards for the back and realized I had no idea how to do a shiplap joint (and I even watch Fixer Upper! :D). So I went ant watched a few Youtube videos and realized it was just a rabbet joint on opposite sides of the board. Seems simple enough for a newbie hand tool worker. A leftie hand tool worker at that! :D

I checked the boards I had cut for the back to see where there were knots, etc. I remembered having picked one board that would have to be rip cut to size in the end anyway and set that aside as last. the boards seemed pretty flat for being 15/20 years old so I began cutting rabbets 3/8" deep and 1/4" wide on the 3/4" boards. Keeping the Stanley 78 from going to one side or the other is a tough gig!
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I was able to get them all done over the course of two evenings. I know there's fine tuning that will need to be done, but I slowed myself down and went back to the directions. I figured Mr. Schwartz knows something about what he's doing and he says to do the sides and bottom first. Off to start learning/practicing dovetails!

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#18 ·
Plane till awaits finish - dutch tool chest in process

so for those of you following along on this journey of mine that seriously resembles one of Billy's walks from the Family Circus cartoons, the plane till is working fabulously and is mostly complete. I still need to mount a small ledge for my router plane, and figure out how to mount my Stanley 78 up there and voila! I may also turn half of the bottom ledge into a drawer space to hold fences and such but for now - it's doing what I need it to do.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine disassembled shelves in her home and asked me if I'd like the wood. 15-20 year old s4s 3/4" 1X12 pine. Sure! I drove over and loaded it all in my truck. She asked me what I was going to do with it. I said - I don't know but I'll try to think of something good. I started thinking about all the times I travel and would like to have a small bench and tool chest to go with me that I could work on small projects with. I was intrigued by Chris Schwartz's article on the Dutch tool chest and decided to go for it.

I rough cut the front, sides, bottom and back boards to length. I got a little ahead of the game when I was looking at the boards for the back and realized I had no idea how to do a shiplap joint (and I even watch Fixer Upper! :D). So I went ant watched a few Youtube videos and realized it was just a rabbet joint on opposite sides of the board. Seems simple enough for a newbie hand tool worker. A leftie hand tool worker at that! :D

I checked the boards I had cut for the back to see where there were knots, etc. I remembered having picked one board that would have to be rip cut to size in the end anyway and set that aside as last. the boards seemed pretty flat for being 15/20 years old so I began cutting rabbets 3/8" deep and 1/4" wide on the 3/4" boards. Keeping the Stanley 78 from going to one side or the other is a tough gig!
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I was able to get them all done over the course of two evenings. I know there's fine tuning that will need to be done, but I slowed myself down and went back to the directions. I figured Mr. Schwartz knows something about what he's doing and he says to do the sides and bottom first. Off to start learning/practicing dovetails!

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Nice job on the rabbets for the shiplap panels.

Be Careful.

Good Luck!

Herb
 

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Dutch Tool Chest - shiplapped back

I got excited a few months back because I'd just acquired a large portion of old s4s 3/4" pine boards from a friend who was dismantling some shelving. I wasn't ready to start on dovetailing the bottom and sides together so I thought I'd start with the rabbets on the back pieces, and I could rip the last piece down so it could be at proper width once everything else was done. Seems fairly straight forward, no? I set my Stanley 78 up for 1/4" wide by 3/8" deep rabbets, grabbed the boards I'd cut to rough length and away I went. I made sure I marked each end of each board so I knew which way to orient them in the end. I've got them roughly to size but obviously something is up. I'm hoping it's just that I wobbled while planing and can correct this by making the rabbets a bit deeper on each side.

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First mistake, surely not the last! I've already checked the bottom and side boards and decided they were going to warp too badly once pressed into service. On some parts need a width of 11 1/8 and these boards are about 9 1/8 wide. There's enough knots in them to make it hard to find a clean piece to append to it, but for free wood, who am I to complain?
 

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Dutch Tool Chest - shiplapped back

I got excited a few months back because I'd just acquired a large portion of old s4s 3/4" pine boards from a friend who was dismantling some shelving. I wasn't ready to start on dovetailing the bottom and sides together so I thought I'd start with the rabbets on the back pieces, and I could rip the last piece down so it could be at proper width once everything else was done. Seems fairly straight forward, no? I set my Stanley 78 up for 1/4" wide by 3/8" deep rabbets, grabbed the boards I'd cut to rough length and away I went. I made sure I marked each end of each board so I knew which way to orient them in the end. I've got them roughly to size but obviously something is up. I'm hoping it's just that I wobbled while planing and can correct this by making the rabbets a bit deeper on each side.

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First mistake, surely not the last! I've already checked the bottom and side boards and decided they were going to warp too badly once pressed into service. On some parts need a width of 11 1/8 and these boards are about 9 1/8 wide. There's enough knots in them to make it hard to find a clean piece to append to it, but for free wood, who am I to complain?
In the second picture, the left board's rabbet shows a sidewall that is a bit out of square. That's actually pretty typical when cutting rabbets with the No. 78 / is hard to avoid. It's also when a should plane, such as a 92, comes in handy. Just lay it in there and with a couple of passes, the cut squares up quickly.

When's next installment? :)
 

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