Today I was able to work a good 12 hours in the shop and made some decent progress on my hand tool project number 3. This is a (Dutch) tool chest. If I'm going to have any hope of getting the table saw de-cluttered I need better storage. Hopefully this will help. (But I can already see I should have built the larger version... oh well).
A few days ago I got started... other than two practice dovetails, these are the first I've done in a decade. I'm pretty happy. (I don't have a coping saw, and my bowsaw wasn't having any of it, so I chopped them out with a chisel)
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I messed up somehow laying out/sawing the shelf dados...
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But dry fit went OK. The shelf will be nailed in from the side so... onward!
Glue-up of the shelf went OK. Almost square. I messed up by preparing the shelf to the exact dimensions on the cut list... should have make it oversize then trimmed to exact fit. Oh well, nails, right?
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Next I needed a 1/4" thick by 2" wide piece for the slide. After casting through the scrap and coming up empty, there was no choice but to resaw something. I was kind of dreading doing it and starting having thoughts of just maybe it was time to buy that bandsaw I'm pretty sure I eventually want... but since I vowed to do these three projects entirely by hand... I went for it.
I used my coarsest rip saw (7 PPI), which was pretty slow going... and I wasn't able to completely hold my line, but it came out a little thicker than 1/4" in all but one tiny spot.
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