Jim Koepke
09-22-2013, 9:49 PM
Mistakes were made... No one to blame... Some lessons learned.
This was made with scraps, firewood, cutoffs, pieces from the Home Depot cull wrack and some burl bought from the scrap bin at Crosscut Hardwoods in Portland, OR.
There was a bit of extra space on one of my shelving units.
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This was originally made as a bookshelf. A friend cut the dados with his radial arm saw more than 20 years ago.
It has been repurposed as tool storage. The extra space above the accumulation of combination/multi-planes looked like it would be a good place to put some small drawers.
One of the mistakes was the dividers between the drawers. I was thinking of just having a curve slightly proud of the drawer fronts. Then I decided to get fancy. A template was cut and so were the dividers:
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After a nights sleep, this morning I realized the error of my ways. Decided instead of recutting them they would stay as a reminder of why not to do it this way.
My tools storage is an evolving mess subject to revision at a moments notice. Well more than a moment since it takes time to rework the wood.
All in all they don't look too bad.
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The sides are attached to the burl fronts with half blind dovetails. The center drawer was actually made to be a box/drawer years ago just to try half blind dovetails. The two drawers on the left and two on the right were made with pieces of burl that were big enough to split to make book matched faces.
Here are a couple of the pictures during the work:
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One of the things to love about the Bishop #10 saw is being able to set the back to the depth of cut.
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Router planes are handy, but a crank necked chisel is really helpful when making stopped dados.
The tops of the dividers are beveled to help guide the drawers back in to place when they have been removed.
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Here are left and right detail pictures:
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Comments and polite criticism is welcome.
Thanks for looking
jtk
This was made with scraps, firewood, cutoffs, pieces from the Home Depot cull wrack and some burl bought from the scrap bin at Crosscut Hardwoods in Portland, OR.
There was a bit of extra space on one of my shelving units.
271491
This was originally made as a bookshelf. A friend cut the dados with his radial arm saw more than 20 years ago.
It has been repurposed as tool storage. The extra space above the accumulation of combination/multi-planes looked like it would be a good place to put some small drawers.
One of the mistakes was the dividers between the drawers. I was thinking of just having a curve slightly proud of the drawer fronts. Then I decided to get fancy. A template was cut and so were the dividers:
271486
After a nights sleep, this morning I realized the error of my ways. Decided instead of recutting them they would stay as a reminder of why not to do it this way.
My tools storage is an evolving mess subject to revision at a moments notice. Well more than a moment since it takes time to rework the wood.
All in all they don't look too bad.
271490
The sides are attached to the burl fronts with half blind dovetails. The center drawer was actually made to be a box/drawer years ago just to try half blind dovetails. The two drawers on the left and two on the right were made with pieces of burl that were big enough to split to make book matched faces.
Here are a couple of the pictures during the work:
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One of the things to love about the Bishop #10 saw is being able to set the back to the depth of cut.
271492
Router planes are handy, but a crank necked chisel is really helpful when making stopped dados.
The tops of the dividers are beveled to help guide the drawers back in to place when they have been removed.
271487
Here are left and right detail pictures:
271489271488
Comments and polite criticism is welcome.
Thanks for looking
jtk