Busy day in the shop

[steven c newman]

This afternoon. Swept the steps to the shop, as Igor is on strike (again?) Cleaned the tool well on the bench ( starting to move on it's own?)
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And, to make it easier the next time around, I added that ramp
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Angle cut at each end, and notched to fit. nailed in place.
Found an old screwdriver handle, and an old Drum Brake adjuster......got to thinking..:eek:
Spent awhile at the grinder, and beltsander, and had a pint of water on hand...Refined the one curved end into a curved chisel. The other curved end was straightened out and reshaped into a tang..
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Not too hateful. I think I can use this to clean the bottoms out in the mortises I chop. Had the narrow the width down to 1/4", so I can use it more.
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Bevel is under the curve. Kind of makes it a "Bevel down" tool? :rolleyes:

That piece of metal on the bench?

Well, I had a few thin boards to plane down, thinner than my normal dogs, so..
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Last year, I made this plane stop. Just a wooden dowel as a dog, with a piece of old saw plate attached with a screw. Teeth engage any wood item clamped to it by the end vise.
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Works when I have a few of these to do..
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Getting ready for more of these.
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Now have two such corners done....not too bad a day:cool:

[William Fretwell]

Have you built the carcass already?
How old is your well used bench?

[steven c newman]

Making a box to stash more extras from the tool supply....

Bench I think was built around 2014.....Sept. or Oct that year...

[William Fretwell]

So its not two years old yet :)

[steven c newman]

I'd have to go back and look at the date stamp on the bench project pictures.

Building a box at the moment. More of a how to for hand cut box joints/finger joints.

Got the rest of the corners chopped. Laid all four sides out in a line...
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Shows the importance of have a SHARP pencil. Joint closest to the camera was with a no-so-sharp pencil. Test fitted another corner
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I rather they be a little long, easier to tune than when they are too short.....Board Stretcher is down at the moment, anyway...

Set this up to plough a few grooves...
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Rigged up a way to hold the parts..
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Better view?
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Then test fit, to see how the grooves line up..
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I have one more goove operation to do, before I glue the sides together. Need to mill a narrow groove to help split off the top for a lid. Later, I can mill a groove around the outside of the glued up box to separate the lid.

Not sure what will be stowed inside this latest box.....depends on how things turn out.

[steven c newman]

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Under construction picture of the bench, way back when...
Just checked...this fall it will be four years old...time flies when you are having fun...

[steven c newman]

Nothing much got done in the shop today....might sneak down there later, and see what trouble I can get into.....

Intend to cut two more grooves on the inside of this box project. One for the lid's panel, the other to split the lid off, after the glue up. Maybe...3/4" apart....with the lid's panel groove just below the top edge. After the box is all glued up, I can cut a groove around the outside of the box, and the top/lid can then be removed. In theory....that is. Last time I tried this, I got in a hurry, and didn't use the second groove.....we'll see how it goes this time around.

That work bench is just that, a WORK Bench, never meant to be a Fine Furniture piece.....it is there to be worked at/on. It was also built to fit a spot in the shop, not the other way around. It also would have to navigate a steep, narrow path just to get in, or out of the Dungeon Shop. Anyone feel like restraining a HEAVY bench sliding on it's top going down a set of steps? Not me.

[steven c newman]

Ok, spent a bit of time today, milling the grooves into the sides of this box. Had to adjust the hold down jig a bit, as the second line of grooves was a bit close to the jig..

Got to the point I could cut some plywood to size, and do a dry fit..
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Not sure IF this was the top, or..
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This was the top...had to "open" it back up..
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There are three grooves milled into the sides. One for the top and one for the bottom panels..
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But, what about this third groove? After the box is assembled and glued up, I'll come back with this plane..
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And plane a groove around set just offset from the inside groove. The lid can then be split off. I had to mark where the outside groove will go..
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Now I had to remember NOT to sand those marks off...

Maybe tomorrow, I can round up some glue, and a forest of clamps, and get this glued up? Stay tuned...

[steven c newman]

Well, today was Monday....means the shop is usually closed for the day....

Errands were run, wound up with a set of brass hinges for this box, a latch to keep the lid closed, and I am now sitting here, wearing a 48 hour Heart Monitor. Issues with a few new meds....they are trying to see what happened. For today, at any rate, I will just takes things a bit easy. The Boss had a plant stand she wanted assembled.....had enough trouble doing that little job, more or less said I'll just sit for awhile. I'll get back to the shop, maybe on Tuesday. Mondays are always a bad day in the shop.
BTW: I also picked up a saw file today, as a 7ppi No.7 Disston could use a little "dental work"....

[Stew Denton]

Steven,

Glad to see you took it easy. Don't push yourself, take care of the heart.

Stew

[steven c newman]

May try a glue-up today.....not much else going on right now...might have gotten 1" of that white stuff last night...sent the rest up towards the northeast.....

[steven c newman]

Well, glue up is in the clamps right now..
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Takes up most of the bench..
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That I even had to clean the bench up, before the mayhem could start..
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And, since this is where 95% of any woodworking gets done....I guess I can take the rest of the day off.

[steven c newman]

Ok, the second half of today's Follies.....let the box sit in the clamps for maybe 5 hours. Got the box out of the clamps without any undue problems.....set it in the vise, with a helper...
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Before the sander trimmed the long finger down, I had to set the fence on this plane..
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THEN I could sand them fingers flush. Took the box out of the clamps, and used a block plane to round over the outside edges of the lid..
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Dog and helper, plus a dog in the end vise. Plane is a Cordovan Stanley 60-1/2. Seemed to work. Then I flipped the box over, and tried the same with the bottom edges.....
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Was almost done...CRACK!!!!, then a piece hit the floor....Grrrrrrr. Picked it back up, seems the panel had snapped out the bottom edge on the short end. More glue, and back into the clamps it went..
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But the F style clamps were fighting me. Grabbed the "helper" trimmed it a bit. slid it under the two C clamps, and redid the F clamps. Stomped back up the stairs, and called a night.....cussing the entire way to my chair.

Will see how it turned out in the morning, IF I feel like it. Get the Heart Monitor off about..noonish......along with a bit of hair. May not be in the mood to fight the thing. Stay tuned...

[steven c newman]

Repair is done, and cleaned up..Set up the vise to hold the box still, long enough to run the Stanley 45 around..
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Plan was to go along all four sides, offset from the inside groove....
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Annnndddddd. right about here, the batteries in the camera...died. Will have to wait until I can get some new ones...
Anyway, once all the sides were done, then a utility knife to complete the job. Lid soon was split off from the box.

Test fits....had to get out the Ohio Tool Co. shoulder plane, and pare back the lip around the box's edge. Suppose I could have gone a bit deeper with the 45, but this way, the lid stays on until the knife work.

Box now has the lid where it will close. Added a couple small brass hinges, using the smallest bit the North Brothers #41 had. Then added a latch to the from. IF I can a few AAA batteries later tonight, I'll post a few more pictures.

[Jim Koepke]

Anyway, once all the sides were done, then a utility knife to complete the job. Lid soon was split off from the box.

Thanks Steven.

Your separating with a #45 has given me ideas.

jtk

[steven c newman]

New batteries in the camera....
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After using the shoulder plane to fit the lip to the lid.
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Hinges installed..
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Latch installed. Tools?
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Push drill for the pilot holes, spokeshave for detail work. Shoulder plane is by Ohio Tool Co.
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I try to select plywood with decent grain....
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This is the repaired end. Repair is along the bottom edge..
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Front view, with the non-repaired end. Has the first coat of The Infamous Witch's Brew. Need to rub this out, and apply a second coat.....later.
Started out with a resawn 4 x 4 pine scrap, and some scrap plywood. Not too bad?

[steven c newman]

Letting the "Brew" cure out for a day or two.....BLO seems to take a while...

Trip to the Blue Store today, bought a couple 1 x 4 x 24" Poplar boards....next project.

Will try something...a little different....stay tuned.

[John C Cox]

I was not expecting to see pictures of a plane when the subject was "going at a box with a 45".... Let's just say I was expecting a perforated box with a lot of chip out... Not neat chamfers.

My 45 doesn't leave neat chamfers ;) ;)

[steven c newman]

Happens when the 45 was made by Stanley, and not by Colt....:)

[Stew Denton]

Hi Steven,

+1 on what Jim said. Using the 45 to separate the two halves of the box is a great idea, and I would not have thought of it! The witches brew came through, I like the way it does with the grain and makes the fir (or pine) look good. I like Danish oil for the same reason, nice what it does to the look of those types of lumber. That is a nice looking piece of ply for the top.

If I had a dungeon shop and the 45 I used was a Colt instead of a Stanley, I could get in a great deal of trouble with the better half, even if the Colt doesn't chip out as much as the Stanley.

Stew