Spokeshave cabinet

[brad jansen]

I just finished this spokeshave cabinet. I used handtools for all of the major joinery work, which was a lot of fun.

It is made from select pine from the big box store and a 12 x 16 glass pane. Dovetailed casework, and 7 rows of spokeshave holders that can be stacked 2 spokeshaves deep.

The finish is briwax over 2 coats of while milk paint, over red barn milk paint. Posting as this may give someone else an idea as well. Thanks

[Sean Hughto]

Very handsome. And a great selection of shaves too!

[paul cottingham]

You are a serious collector of shaves! Nice cabinet indeed.

[Bobby O'Neal]

Very nice cabinet. I think the pine is a great look. Did you leave some compression room in your joints?

[brad jansen]

In the dovetail joints? Probably not, tell me about it please?

[Bobby O'Neal]

Not much to tell I suppose. I'm not asking out of expertise, rather just curious about it. Softer woods can compress easily so I wondered if it were advantageous to cut joints a little bit fat and let them mash together a bit.

[Gordon Eyre]

A cabinet to be proud of. Well done.

[brad jansen]

Bobby, I understand your compression question. I did not purposely intend to leave compression room in the joints, I simply cut the tails like you would for anything else....but then again, my cuts are not perfectly clean, nor perfectly straight...and that in itself provides a bit of compression.. 3 of the 4 sides were very tight, the fourth I could remove by pulling it. Once I glued it and planeed the sides, the tails looked good.

[gary Zimmel]

A fitting home for some fine tools...
Nice work Brad.

[Bobby O'Neal]

Bobby, I understand your compression question. I did not purposely intend to leave compression room in the joints, I simply cut the tails like you would for anything else....but then again, my cuts are not perfectly clean, nor perfectly straight...and that in itself provides a bit of compression.. 3 of the 4 sides were very tight, the fourth I could remove by pulling it. Once I glued it and planeed the sides, the tails looked good.

Gotcha. They look really good. Again, I'm no expert. I've just fiddled a bit and it seems that the softer the wood, the better my joints look if I skip on the paring. Skil aside, I wondered if it'd be helpful for tight fits be it tails, tenons or otherwise.

Again, a very cool cabinet. Great work.

[Mike Henderson]

Cool cabinet. You're fortunate to have the wall space to be able to put it. I have zero wall space left in my shop. I store my spokeshaves in a LV spokeshave roll and put the roll in a drawer. I have enough spoke shaves that I'll probably have to buy a second roll if I buy any more.

Mike

[BTW, the LV spokeshave roll is a good product. Holds lots of spokeshaves, wraps up nicely and has a carrying handle.]

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[Mark Hulette]

Nice work! Looks good--- and appropriate to the tools! Thanks for sharing.

[Alan Lightstone]

I have the spokeshave roll also, and am now feeling quite inadequate.

Beautiful cabinet.