Greetings from currently frigid Michiana. The cold weather means more shop time (yay!) and I'm working on a little project that's thrown up a challenge.
The task at hand is a finger jointed box with large finger joints in the style of Greene and Greene. The top and bottom of the box will be held captive by a groove around the perimeter of the inside. Where these grooves line up with the sockets they are quick work with my small plow plane. Where they line up with the pins, the need to be put in blind so they don't show after assembly.
I drilled a hole at each end of the groove to establish the stops, then realized that the skate of my plow plane can't drop into the groove because it rides on the ungrooved portion of the pin. Oops.
I can always break out my palm router, but I'd rather stick to Neander methods. A chisel promises an imprecise groove in my mind. I don't have a small router plane.
Ideas from the Creek Collective?
Thanks in advance.