So with the bottom square and level, its time to put the bottom on. Bottom is a little under 10” x 15”, and made up of a single piece of ½” pine. Usually, you would use a series of boards with tongue & grooves to allow for wood movement, but that is not how it …
Once I had cleaned up all the tails & pins and test fit it, it was time for glue up. I chose to use some “Old Brown Glue” Liquid Hide Glue. Heated it up to 120+ degrees using some hot water, and it went on very easily. Coated all the joints, pushed them in (had …
I finally broke down and decided to build the School Box from the Chris Schwartz’s “Joiner and Cabinet Maker” book. Been wanting to do this for years, bought the wood for it a while back, and finally have an opening in my schedule. The objective is to make this entirely by hand, and I will …
Had a customer who had inherited a cabinet from their family. They liked the cabinet, but wanted it to have a deeper top (to put photos and knick knacks on). The back of it was also a poor quality piece of plywood, since it was supposed to be up against a wall. However, the customer …
Recently at the Farmer’s Market, I had a customer come up to me and admired one of my laminated cutting boards which had a “juice groove” around the perimeter. She liked the work, but didn’t want a juice groove on it. So she asked me if I could make a laminated cutting board without one …
Had a great time at the Farmer’s Market! A lot of the sellers are the low cost phone holders, tablet holders, etc. I had a good time talking to folks and explaining my craft, and some folks came up with some excellent ideas for other projects. As an “attention grabber” I built a wood “spinner” …
Its been a couple of weeks. I have been off backpacking in New Hampshire, and we got rained out – very dramatically. While Vermont got more, New Hampshire was only slightly less, and hiking the White Mountains involves a lot of rock scrambling/climbing. At one point, we were actually hiking down the equivalent of a …
The door to my shop has been in bad shape for years. It’s a wooden door, and due to way the roofline is, there is a significant “splatter” of water which ends up hitting the bottom. Over the years, the wood has rotted away to the point where it was close to falling apart at …
So the drawer joinery is cut, tested and cleaned up. I put in a dado in the back (for the back panel) and a groove in the front and two sides to hold the bottom. The bottom is ¼” thick luan plywood, which shows pretty nice. Glue up consisted of spreading the glue on the …
So with the tails cut, its time to lay out and cut the pins. Used my moxon vise to lay out the pins, using the tails piece as a template. From there, on to the joinery bench to saw them out, then clean out with a chisel. Once chiseled out, I used a smaller chisel …
