I may be moving this fall. Between the upcoming move and being busy at work I don’t really want to buy a bunch of lumber or start a big project. So I’ve been doing a few little projects that have been on my list for a while that can get done with left-over wood from other projects.
First, put racks on the door of my tool cabinet to hold squares and layout tools. I don’t have much clearance when the door is closed, so this is about the limit of how much I’ll mount on the door. I may put a little shelf and a magnet to hold the 18” blade for my combination square, but I don’t plan to put anything else there.
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Next is a little tray to hold plow plane blades and attachments and the edge guide for my router plane. These are all loose in a drawer and I recently bought another 3/16” blade because I didn’t realize I already had one. I didn’t want to make something too fitted/specific so this tray can get re-purposed for something else if I re-organize in the future. This was made out of some “rustic” walnut with funky grain, so there are some rough spots that would have taken a lot of scraping/sanding to completely remove.
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Finally I’m getting started on some little shelves for screws and sandpaper. These will be sized so I can put my two boxes of fasteners on them, then I’ll two shelves that can take loose sandpaper, or more fastener containers. I’m probably going to split one of the shelves with a vertical divider so I can organize half-sheets if sand paper. Right now the fasteners sit on a shelf and I have to un-stack the boxes whenever I’m looking for something in the bottom box. These will sit in the same place, but I’ll make them so I can hang them on the wall if I want to in the future.
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This will be oak frames with ply panels. I broke down the 4/4 stock (actual width will be about 3/4” by the time I square it up) for the frames, and perfectly used up a board. I will have to get a piece of 1/2” plywood or mdf for the shelves. I wasn’t looking forward to hand ripping a bunch of oak, but it actually went fairly quickly. I ripped a board, then used a jack and a jointer to get a new clean edge for marking the width of the next rip. That also gave me a good edge to square off of when cutting the pieces to length.
The plan is to do a rabbeted frame with the plywood flush to shelves on the inside. So, if I’m using actual 3/16” plywood for the panels and the shelves sit in 1/4” dadoes in the frames, I’d need to set the panels into 7/16” rabbets. I’ll have to sketch out the joinery, because I think that would force me to move my tenons too far off-center, unless I notch out the panels or do something else unusual to work around tenons centered in the stock. The ripping and jointing was a decent workout, so I’m going to get some lunch and take care of some other errands before mulling over the joinery some more.
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