Ken Fitzgerald
07-12-2010, 12:35 AM
because you get a chance to figure out a fix and do some things you have been meaning to do but haven't.
I am in the process of building a 40" w x 8'h x 20" deep cabinet for my shop. I am using 3/4" A-C plywood for the top, bottom and sides and shelves.I cut the sides and top and bottom. Next I cut dados in the sides for metal shelving standards for the metal clips for adjustable shelves. Then I rabbeted the sides and top and bottom for the 1/2" plywood back. Next the dado in sides for the one stationary shelf. Quickly I measured for the back, cut it to size and then dado up the middle for a 5th metal standard for the adjustable shelf clips.
Now I began the assembly and I screwed up! I had measured for the width of the back assuming I would assemble the sides and tops one way and of course, I chose to glue and screw it the other and now the back is too narrow by 3/4".
The blue smoke you saw coming from the general direction of north Idaho Saturday night was probably originating from my shop!
So...I call the oldest son...can I borrow your pickup Sunday? Thanks Son! Sunday I drive by the one local lumberyard I think might be open on Sunday. 3 cars in the parking lot..lights on in the building. I got the kid's truck and of course that lumberyard was closed. I refuse to buy lumber from HD. Period.
So I return the truck and come home stewing. A wasted Sunday afternoon.
Then I get to thinking...I could rabbet one edge of the miscut back ...rabbet another piece of 1/2" plywood and cut it to fit the gap. The overlapping rabbets would probably be unnoticed and it's just a shop cabinet. It doesn't need to be perfect.
Long story shortened, I used my bandsaw and made a tool I have thought of many times and never found the time or had a bandsaw to do it with before. I made a featherboard to use on my t/s fence. A scrap piece of 1x6 cut to a 25º angle...then a saw cut every 3/16" .
I used it to hold the 8' lengths of 1/2" plywood to the table top while I put rabbets in the mating edges with my dado blade. What a thing of beauty. I should have made one long ago!
The overlapping rabbets closed the gap quite well. Not a bad recovery!
The closer my shop gets to being finished.....the quicker and better I'm able to accomplish things....the more satisfied I am.
Sometimes making a mistake can result in a satisfying ending!
I am in the process of building a 40" w x 8'h x 20" deep cabinet for my shop. I am using 3/4" A-C plywood for the top, bottom and sides and shelves.I cut the sides and top and bottom. Next I cut dados in the sides for metal shelving standards for the metal clips for adjustable shelves. Then I rabbeted the sides and top and bottom for the 1/2" plywood back. Next the dado in sides for the one stationary shelf. Quickly I measured for the back, cut it to size and then dado up the middle for a 5th metal standard for the adjustable shelf clips.
Now I began the assembly and I screwed up! I had measured for the width of the back assuming I would assemble the sides and tops one way and of course, I chose to glue and screw it the other and now the back is too narrow by 3/4".
The blue smoke you saw coming from the general direction of north Idaho Saturday night was probably originating from my shop!
So...I call the oldest son...can I borrow your pickup Sunday? Thanks Son! Sunday I drive by the one local lumberyard I think might be open on Sunday. 3 cars in the parking lot..lights on in the building. I got the kid's truck and of course that lumberyard was closed. I refuse to buy lumber from HD. Period.
So I return the truck and come home stewing. A wasted Sunday afternoon.
Then I get to thinking...I could rabbet one edge of the miscut back ...rabbet another piece of 1/2" plywood and cut it to fit the gap. The overlapping rabbets would probably be unnoticed and it's just a shop cabinet. It doesn't need to be perfect.
Long story shortened, I used my bandsaw and made a tool I have thought of many times and never found the time or had a bandsaw to do it with before. I made a featherboard to use on my t/s fence. A scrap piece of 1x6 cut to a 25º angle...then a saw cut every 3/16" .
I used it to hold the 8' lengths of 1/2" plywood to the table top while I put rabbets in the mating edges with my dado blade. What a thing of beauty. I should have made one long ago!
The overlapping rabbets closed the gap quite well. Not a bad recovery!
The closer my shop gets to being finished.....the quicker and better I'm able to accomplish things....the more satisfied I am.
Sometimes making a mistake can result in a satisfying ending!