| Blog series by spaids | updated 163 days ago | 6 parts | 1456 reads | 23 comments total |
Part 1: TSDC The Sawdust Chronicles Desktop Organizer
I have almost finished my TSDC beginner woodworker contest entry. This has been a lot of fun and a lot of work at the same time. The 30 day dead line sounds easy enough to meet yet I’m struggling to make it. I have pushed myself a bit with this project. I came up with an original design and then, with the help of a friend and my wife, I realized that I should burn that and come up with a second original design. My second design is more well received by my panel of personal critic...
Part 2: Start cutting wood
Weekend three: (pause for dramatic effect….) Wood gets cut! There up on the top shelf is an old walnut board a friend gave me. Its just been waiting around to be useful someday.There is also some oak on there that had a project assigned to it when I bought it. I might use some of it for this. The drawer sides and back are going to be oak. You can see some hardwood floor scraps on the bottom right shelf. I might just make the drawer parts from that. Its a very shallow drawer (sh...
Part 3: Weekend four.... its lives.
Ok I got some parts made. Time to start building this thing. I am going to attach the sides by putting the three panels in dadoes and gluing em. Well two rabbets and a dado but whos counting? My problem is on the two front sides I need to make stop dadoes. I’ve never done that before. What do you mean I can’t cut this on my table saw? I cut everything on my table saw. Well not stop dados tough guy your gonna have to learn this on the router. OK fine but that means I need a...
Part 4: Holey blog post!
I know that I do not yet have the skill to place these holes with the necessary precision to have the 14 or so dowels line up between two pieces. I can however do this well enough once so that any small discrepancies in the layout will be virtually undetectable to the average human. With that in mind I made a template. But like I said, I’m not that good yet so first I made a template to help me make a template. The narrow piece is a hole guide. Those two holes are 1/4” ...
Part 5: Finishing my TSDC contest project (the drawer)
All thats left now is making a drawer. I have some oak on my rack but I also have some oak flooring that is plenty big enough for the small drawer. That finish is very hard. Its “special” and you should resaw this stuff off before using it. Don’t run it through your jointer or planer. After I slice the finish off with my bandsaw, milling this stuff was very easy. I cut them a hair long and to the correct width. These pieces are 1/4” thick. I’m...
Part 6: The Sawdust Chronicles 30 Day Build Contest Winners!
Hey guys I won! I won the grand prize which was 1st dibs on the four available prizes. I chose the block plane. Technically the block plane was the least expensive of the prizes BUT it will be sharpened and tuned byJoe Hurst-Wajszczuk. As a rookie, having a plane that I KNOW is finely tuned to perform to its highest ability will be invaluable. I will now have a bench mark to gauge all my future hand tool sharpening and tuning. Thanks to Rick Waters, Eric Pearson, Neil Lamens and Joe Hurst-Waj...
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