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    Maybe of interest to some?

    Either way I’m board dog sitting at the moment so I figured I’d share what I’ve been up to the last few days.

    Everything cherry is for work. I just happen to be building it at home as I had machines better suited to stain grade work. Plus our shop is on the top floor of a old mill building with floor to ceiling windows. Needles to say it’s a bit hot in the shop these days in New England. My shop on the other hand is perfect self moderated with regard to both temperature and humidity year round.

    I have been working 60-70hrs a week without vacation for many years now. It really leaves little time for my own work. Good thing I mostly enjoy my actual work for the most part.

    I found a bit of time in the last day or two to put some time in on a personal project or two I have had just sitting for god knows how long.

    I’ll start with the plane rack seen in the chisel rack post.

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    The picture shows how the rack is attached to the wall along with the taper batten that sets the angle of the panel so the planes will stay put.

    I have to admit attaching the piece to the wall was a bit of a afterthought. Well not so much a afterthought, I had a few ideas and was unsure exactly what option I wanted to settle on. I decided to just proceed and figure it out later. I like to kinda build as I go with my own work and let something just evolve. Often I can see the piece in my head when I start but as I begin constructing it and can now see it in 3D form I often make amendments. Maybe this is a sight of a lazy woodworker or maybe a sign of something else. Being I have to follow plans at work 60-70hrs a week I choose to operate with a little more freedom and creativity on my own time.

    Anyway I settled on a French cleat. The only issue with doing so at this stage of the game was that I had to cut the female portion of the assemble by hand with the bat tents attached to the slab. I could have removed them but doing so would only loosen the joinery of the sliding dovetails so ikopted for a Japanese saw and a sharpe chisel or two. A;l in all it only tool me 30 minutes. It always blows my mind how quickly ha d work can move and how accurate a result one can get withou the swift potential for distaster a improperly setup machine can cause.

    The slap will be outfitted with small ebony rips fastened with brass head screws to secure and organize the individual planes.

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    Bellow is the hand plane collection to date.

    I have a whole pile of the HNT stuff on hold via another forum member. I dint think the HNT stuff will make it onto this rack. I think I’ll keep this for just my Lie Nielsen stuff. Sadly before I can proceed with the ebony I need to continue to acquire the last few Lie Nielsen planes I have been wanting. My reason for waiting is mostly layout.

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    Next up is a little shelf I started making god knows how long ago.

    The piece of mahogany was reclaimed from the demolition of a house I gutted remodeled along with put a fairly large and nice addition on about three or four years ago. The ebony is just scrap offcuts form other projects.

    Pretty rediculous I know but it’s again a French clear system to hold my shaper tooling and accessories. Just remember I tend to get it to these rediculous projects as they help me unwind and working 60-70hr weeks I really have no time for my own work.

    Maybe someday. For now I’m gonna make $$$ while its there to be made. Building cabinetry for a living scares me more than when I was a carpenter doing high end residential construction. Only time will tell I suppose but I plan to be ready this time with $$$ in the bank. I then plan to use the time to focus on my own work.

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    Bellow is a detail of the chamfer on both the mahogany and the ebony edging. I gave thoughtand pause to using the Waterlox on this piece out of fear it would hurry and abscure the fine chamfers. Well it seems that is exactly what it has done. I’m only like three coats of waterlox into what is normally ten coats. In the pictures to follow you will see another picture holding a spindle for my shaper. That’s shelf I fished with West Systems Epoxy and wax.

    I generally prefer a oil finish to either of the above but being this is shop stuff I wanted it to have a finish that could be easily repaired hence the waterlox. As for the epoxy finsh well I don’t know what I was thinking other than it should be tuff.

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    Also for “Brian H” the mahogany shelf was largely a test piece project to see how well I had setup those Japanese planes you so graciously and pain stakingly walked me through.

    I recently ride to use them to smooth the desk top bellow but ultimately resorted to sanding I guess my Japanese Kanna setup and hand planing skills still have room for improvement. Don’t knock me on the board selection or lack of ripping boards to the same width as the make the 90% corner. This desk top was a work project and I was supplied the stock by my employer and told to make it work the best I could. I was pretty disappointed in the mineral streaks and lack of consistency with regard to width of boards. It would had been nice if they could have at least been the same width working from to back. Sadly the pile of stock I had to yield the top dictated my decision making vrs logic and quality of craftsmanship.

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    Wow...incredibly beautiful work and end-result! While I know some folks would say "why" to using such nice material in the shop, I can see how much inspiration and uplift it can and will bring to you for years to come each time you turn your attention in that direction.

    I also hope you get more "you time" going forward. Keeping that 60-70 hour pace long-term can be "not healthy" for many folks.
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    Yeah it is kinda wasteful.

    On the other hand the Birdseye I got off CL for $3 bf to the tune of 400bf. In all reality I think I used three sticks for that shelf. I think I have it to spare as for the ebony well let’s just chalk that up to my type A perfectionist have to have exactly what I want only child syndrome. At least I know I know I’m out of my mind right?

    As for work, I come from a long lineage of workaholics. Plus if I want to continue to work with beautiful materials on beautiful machines I don’t have much choice. The trade off and logic is doing something I love or at least can to,erase and or find aspect to enjoy so it does not feel like work.

    Part of why I work so hard bellow. I hope for a t-60, t-12 sliding table shaper and matching planer to magically appear in ,y shop before the economy b]gies belly up. Ill just settle for before I retire. I’m 40 so I think it’s a realistic dream lol..

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    Wow...incredibly beautiful work and end-result! While I know some folks would say "why" to using such nice material in the shop, I can see how much inspiration and uplift it can and will bring to you for years to come each time you turn your attention in that direction.

    I also hope you get more "you time" going forward. Keeping that 60-70 hour pace long-term can be "not healthy" for many folks.

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    Packaging tape gnome came home with gifts..

    Second ff and upside drWing of space these will be in..

    More tomorrow. Didn’t get much done today. Nice to just relax a bit.

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    No miracles today. I did however fully expect to have the drawers fitted today. Oh well it is what it is.

    If the upper drawers are looking weird to some it is to accommodate extra wide sinks specified by the architect and customer. The result are the upper drawers “centers fixed” left and right have a face wider than the box. The drawers in this case are a partial overlay solid slab with a ogee edge treatment. The lowers doors and or drawers are inset.

    The smaller of the two vanities has all drawers as explained above as to accommodate the plumbing. I’m not very fond of this design but again it’s not my idea or my house so as they say se la vie..

    Tomorrow is backs fit drawers and doors, make upper drawers or rather cut stock I already have dimensioned up and profile the edges and make solid wood skins for the the toe kick. Then it’s a quick sand fest.

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    That is really beautiful work, Patrick...
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    There is a grain of dust on your floor. What gives? haha

    Nice joints, and great finishing.

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    The top drawers are partial overlay. Pretty straight forward other than these are vanities and have sinks. The sinks are like 22.375” wide while the drawer and door openings on the large vanity are 18.25”.

    The small vanity if you notice is all drawers and a style splits it right down the middle. As a result there is not only not enough room Fios the bowl of the sink but also no place for the pipes. Often if there were one bank drawers side to side we would just use a horseshoe shaped drawer box. Again I think that’s crappy but again it’s not my decision.

    In the case of this small vanity all drawers must be treated like the top drawers. So when you open them the box is more narrow than the opening and the space is filled with in this case cherry. For a inset drawer this is very straight forward. For the partial overlay not quite as straight forward. For the top drawers I’m left two options, one recess this cherry the .25back from the face frame to allow fir the rebated portion of the drawer to close. Or two hog off the rebated section of the drawer back that dies not fit within the actual drawer opening as shown in the pictures bellow.

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    And a little something for me at the end of a long day.

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    True craftsmanship goes well beyond the joinery...as you mention, it's also about carefully selecting material for color, grain, orientation and a homogeneous look. Honestly, that's actually the first step in the finishing process and comes even before you start assembling anything!
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    Yeah I’m kinda anal retentive about a tidy workspace. I clean as I make messes all day then I spend a good 20 minutes at days end vacuuming everything from benches to machines to flora and putting away all my tools.

    I’d loose my freaking mind any other way resulting in really resale shotty work. If my souroundings are a mess, my mind is a mess.

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    Thank you Jim.

    It’s not Japanese joinery but it’s pretty nice for box cabinets I guess. I have used those fancy Japanese chisels a couple times on this project but not for anything other than to pair something flush. The hand planes have got some use though.

    I don’t quite get how most cab shops don’t take the time worry about one style being short grain and the other long yada yada, I hardly believe it. It would look like a absalute garbage. I did my best to make sure my drawer styles and tails were cut from one board and the grain would continuously run through end to end.

    Anyway it’s not piece de resistance but considering the pile of lumber I had to work with I’m relatively happy. In the pictures bellow a few boards look much darker than other. In most has just been due to us exposeur. I’m hopeful that when I give everything a sand it should all even out.

    If not there is always the ugly and blasphemous stain the client or architect has chosen to even things out. Who knows maybe I will be very thankful for that stain in th next couple days.

    Anyway a few more pics attached. Don’t mind the giant retails. They are a result of euro drawer slides “again something I’m not fond of” but what kitchen do you know of these days built with anything else. Anyway the minimum revail allowed is 3/32nds. I make them slightly tighter than that. If you go to tight the drawers will rub if you open two at a time as they sag at extension.

    A little more toe kick to make tomorrow and a miserable day of sanding and to the spray booth it goes.

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    The two base units that go to the desk top above. The desk is built into a two adjacent walls. The small carcass supports the left of the desk the large carcass supports the right of the desk. A small apron connect them just under the front working edge of the top.

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    Some details of joinery. Again don’t hold me to the fire on the design of this stuff. We work with a number of architects. The architects keep the work coming and thus decide much of if not all the details. In this case the two bases were to have horizontal grain orientation tying into the solid wood tapered legs. Whatever pays the bills so long as I’m getting paid to build stuff and I’ll build you whatever you want.

    As a result I found it best to construct the panels to thenlegs much like a table top with draw bore bread boards ends. I don’t have pictures of this joint as I was busy listening to Jerry on my phone. Often this is the case when I’m building and picture get taken after the good stuff has taken place.

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    Sadly both units get pre made dovetailed boxes and the drawer fronts just get applied. The client also opted for the units to just get shot with conversion varnish. No oil no stain

    Completely butt backwards as this same project has a kitchen I built and have zero photos of tomdate made of QS European Sycamore one of the whitest figured woods one can obtain. Get this the client opted to stain the sycamore, go figure. Like I saii]d you pay me I’ll build you whatever you want.

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