Today in the shop II (w/pics)

[David Eisan]

Evening All,

Last Tuesday I started these six doors, today I managed to get back at them and finish making them.

- All the parts rough cut

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/rsparts.jpg

- Face jointing

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/facejointing.jpg

- Clamping the rail and stile boards together and batch edge sanding them to remove some tearout from the jointer

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/edgesanding.jpg

- Making the cope cuts in the ends of the rails

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/copecut.jpg

- All the parts milled up

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/milledparts.jpg

- The doors in clamps

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/clampeddoors.jpg

- Sanding the doors

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/sandingdoors.jpg

- Finished doors

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/donedoors.jpg

You can also see the face frames I am working on for the kitchen cabinets as well. The reason the stiles are not the same width on each side is because these are cabinet end panels and not really doors, they do look correct once installed.

Thanks,

David.

Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.

[Chris Padilla]

Uh, David, the dust collection on you jointer appears to be, umm, malfunctioning? :D

Can't wait to see them installed...looks nice.

I spy a serious caul of wood under your bench! Is that all maple you are doing up?

[David Eisan]

I spy a serious caul of wood under your bench! Is that all maple you are doing up?

It is a 9" x 9" x 7' chunk 'o walnut, air dried for about 20 years. Right now it is just making my bench weighty as figure out what to do with it.

David.

[Bruce Page]

It is a 9" x 9" x 7' chunk 'o walnut, air dried for about 20 years. Right now it is just making my bench weighty as figure out what to do with it.

David.If I might make a suggestion....:D

Nice setup you got there.

[Fred LeBail]

Dave , do you get any sanding marks when sanding across the grain on your "doors" ?
Fred

[David Eisan]

Dave , do you get any sanding marks when sanding across the grain on your "doors" ?
Fred

Yes, there are cross grain sanding marks left on the doors from the drum sander. For the first few passes on the drum sander I use 120 grit to make the doors flat, than I take one or two more passes at 180 grit so the scratches are really small. Finally I use 150 grit in my random orbital sander to remove all the with the grain and cross grain scratches. When you drop down a grit from the drum sander to the ROS, it really takes no time at all to remove the cross grain scratches. If I were to stop at 120 on the drum sander then try to clean up with 120 on the ROS, it would be *a lot* more work.

David.

[Kent Cori]

David,

I just knew the clean shop purists would have a hissy fit over photos that actually show saw dust on one's shop floor. You're a brave man to publish these provacative photos here. :)

The doors look great and I appreciated seeing someone demonstrating the proper eye and ear protection plus the use of push blocks. Great job. Be sure to let us see the finished cabinets when they are ready.

[Jason Tuinstra]

David,

Great setup you have there. I'd love to have that jointer with or without the dust collection. Regardless, everything is lookn' nice. I look forward to seeing this project when it's put together. Keep it up!

[David Eisan]

David,

Great setup you have there. I'd love to have that jointer with or without the dust collection. Regardless, everything is lookn' nice. I look forward to seeing this project when it's put together. Keep it up!

Thank you.

In the winter I have the DC hooked up to keep the dust down, but right now I am milling soo much wood, I am emptying the DC too often. The nice thing about a big jointer is being able to set the depth of cut to 1/8 of an inch and flatten a board in one pass. With my older jointer I didn't have to use a rear push stick, just paddles, this one really exerts a lot of "kickback potential" force, so a rear push stick is mandatory.

I am off to a cabinet shop tomorrow to see about getting the face frames and end panels sprayed. Becuase of my day job (woodworking machinery sales) I know a number of cabinet shop owners. The boxes are made (all 20), just waiting for the face frames and end panels to be attached so they can be hung.

I will post more as I go along...

Thanks,

David.