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Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 08-27-2016
Here goes a new "niece or nephew" project (I've got many of both, and all the young ones are hoping to get gifts like the old ones already have).
I don't get enough shop-time when the good ol' day-job gets in the way. So, I usually build on the fly, no prototypes. And sometimes I just decide time has to be saved. On this set of cherry stock, I was originally thinking of through-dovetails on the major corners, but after eyeballing the proportions and stock thickness, I gambled on rabbeting-out the top and bottom pieces. This is looking not too bad. I might think about sinking some wrought-nails through those corner joints sometime.
I did a good bit of stopped-dado work with a little trim router, preparing for side-hung drawers on one side and ??? door on the other side. I think, for the most part after this, it will be "Gentlemen, shut down your engines" for slow paced handwork. Sometimes I can tolerate slow work better, if I get a big step like the main carcass established early on.
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/CherryCaseFramed_zpsmm2sfrwo.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo CherryCaseFramed_zpsmm2sfrwo.jpg"/>
More to follow.... don't stay up waiting, though!
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - Derek Cohen - 08-27-2016
Great to see this Chris!
What are the dimensions? Thickness of the carcase?
How did you do the centre divider?
I assume that this is all loose still?
Regards from Perth
Derek
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 08-28-2016
Hi Derek, Thank you,
This carcase is meant to use up a couple of wide planks of cherry, so it's about 15" wide, 9" tall, 9" deep. For sense of scale, the little sleeve lying in the case is a holder for a writing pen (I turn these from time to time). The cherry stock was 3/4" thick before truing, and maybe it's a little on the thick side for such a small project, but it's so lightweight I just kept it. I have rebuilt a few Gerstner machinist chests which were heavy even with 3/8" QS white oak stock, so this is a pleasant lightening.
The case is mostly loose but I have tacked the upper-left and lower-right corners so it doesn't fall apart too often. The central divider just has some 1/4" wide long tenons, fitting into routed slots on the top and bottom planks.
From those Gerstners I had got enamored with side-hung drawers, so that's what this will have. I only roughly graduated the slot positions so the 3 drawers can have a little bit of size progression.
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 08-29-2016
***Reductive Milling, or 3-D Additive Printing ?? ***
Now I am getting into a lazier, cheaper way of thinking, possibly. And the more I think, well, could be a reduction to absurdity, but we'll see...
I've decided to go for dado joints rather than dovetails on the 3 drawers. I have done it before using a lot of tablesaw cuts, etc., for example in this picture from 2012, when I gang-machined a bunch of drawer components for a Gerstner overhaul:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Dados%20Rabbets%20Grooves_zpsjri0mtjs.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Dados Rabbets Grooves_zpsjri0mtjs.jpg"/>
So I started on that thought with a dado plane (a Japanese dado plane I got in a horse-trade). Here, the walnut drawer-front is rough milled already, and I'm thinking on how to make a bunch of drawer-sides:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Reductive%20method_zpsblyrmkow.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Reductive method_zpsblyrmkow.jpg"/>
But then I was fretting about needing to resaw some of my lumber, which was generally too thick to be a drawer-side as-is. I then recalled one of my earliest Woodnet postings, where I demonstrated making a dado with only a LN140 rabbet plane. How? By joining 2 pieces of wood so that the rabbet-piece and the flat-piece together enclosed a channel (for another Gerstner overhaul):
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/DrawerSide_zps54f5e132.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DrawerSide_zps54f5e132.jpg"/>
Now, do I have any thinner lumber that can be ganged-up to make drawer-sides? Hmmm... there is a gigantic stash of shim-stock that my nephew dumped here, and I think it's actually QS Southern Yellow Pine, could be plenty tough enough.... Now my wheels are turning.
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Additive%20Method_zpsrzys51p5.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Additive Method_zpsrzys51p5.jpg"/>
Apologies for non-purist thinking out loud here!
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 09-03-2016
A bit of parsimony hasn't yet killed off my family gene-pool
.I've started the drawers work with laminated sides, so as to use up a really decent thin lumber that's been taking up space.
Here is some initial dado work on 2 drawer-sides that are ganged-up:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Dado%20Prep_zpsvhmsvppm.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Dado Prep_zpsvhmsvppm.jpg"/>
Here is a beginning proof-of-concept on the fit of the side to the front-stock of the drawers:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Drawer%20Dado%20Scheme_zpsefqzxsvj.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Drawer Dado Scheme_zpsefqzxsvj.jpg"/>
The front-stock (walnut) will also be receiving grooves to hold the plywood 1/4" bottom piece of the drawer. Here using my horse-traded HNT Godzilla dado/grooving plane:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/HNT%20Godzilla_zpsim9phxqo.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo HNT Godzilla_zpsim9phxqo.jpg"/>
Hopefully I get time to do more of the same!
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - hbmcc - 09-03-2016
Parsimony? I call it thrift, economy, and to hell with boutique wood store prices.....
But, how strong (or, weak) is the double dado joint? Bruce
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 09-05-2016
I made 6 thin, slick Persimmon inserts for the case-grooves that serve to hang the drawers. The spare pieces are on top, and they make nice "stir sticks" for epoxy.
Here is a beginning process of drawer fitting. The drawers are all oversize in a few dimensions, and I enjoy slowly whittling them down to a "just so" fitting. Drawer-bottoms are plywood, so I could "glue everything to everything" and have some very strong drawers:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Hanging%20Drawers_zpsssmtnp71.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Hanging Drawers_zpsssmtnp71.jpg"/>
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 09-07-2016
I have decided to use some brass pulls that I bought last year. Here is a confirmation they will still fit the smallest of the drawers:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Brass%20Pull%20Selection_zpsxeiktbvc.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Brass Pull Selection_zpsxeiktbvc.jpg"/>
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - C. in Indy - 09-08-2016
Not yet done with all 3 drawers, I got anxious to find a piece of wood to be a door on the left side. I did find and resaw a piece of fiddle-like maple. Using dowel-pin locators, and the still-loose carcase, I was able to locate some holes in the 'door' and the carcase:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/Dowel%20Centers_zpsykzyhbvb.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Dowel Centers_zpsykzyhbvb.jpg"/>
Now I'm using some 3/8" Delrin mini-rods that I got out of my work-plant's scrap bin years ago. They have served as hinges in a couple of my projects. Very low friction, and inobtrusive:
<img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/C66RUPPEL/3_8%20Delrin%20Pins_zpsira0cqzw.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 3_8 Delrin Pins_zpsira0cqzw.jpg"/>
Chris
RE: Slow Build-Along, Small Cherry Chest - Stwood_ - 09-08-2016
Sweet!! I don't see any bondo yet. Lol. Nice, off the shelf work.