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RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 03-30-2017
If you want to build along...use whatever wood you have. Shakers sure did.
Just showing how I build one of these projects.
RE: Pine Table Project - Arlin Eastman - 03-30-2017
I love it Bandit and how you can get any wood to work for you and all your hand tools
RE: Pine Table Project - daddo - 03-30-2017
It takes a whole new technique to work that soft pine. I've done a lot of it. Tear outs, dings, knots, shrinking, expanding and all that can make you go mad.
I do like the looks of it though and it will get a golden patina with age. You're doing good.
Sand it, sand it, sand it and then sand it down to 200 grit then 400.
![[Image: sarahwedtablepine009_zps3f4e69e7.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/daddo/sarahwedtablepine009_zps3f4e69e7.jpg)
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 03-30-2017
Since the mortise #4 was about 3/8" wide, got out the Witherby
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Needed a real hammer to power it by, as the mallet wasn't quite big enough....Got side #2 into the clamps for the night...
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Then laid out for the short end panel's location. Had to decide which end to put the drawer in. Then did a little saw work to make the drawer front..
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Two rails, top rail gets a dovetail, to fit into sockets in the top of the legs. Bottom rail just a tenon will do.
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which left laying out these
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Let's see how these turn out......
( I prefer through dovetails, rather than these half blind ones.... 
)Too many trips up the stairs to the bathroom tonight.....almost too far away ( I do NOT recommend the BBQ Bacon King @ Burger King...NASTY) I think I'll call it a night...
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 03-31-2017
Ok, after half a day of rust hunting, and doing a bit of trading planes, finally got to the shop...
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This is the other end of the drawer front.....maybe some day, I might get good at these handcut thingys..
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I also got the Side #2 out of the clamps, and stashed it with the other side..
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Somehow managed to get both sides of the drawer done, dovetail-wise, and sized for a couple backs
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yes, two backs, one at 12" from the front, and another all the way back.
Legs on Side #2 now have a bead down the outside corner just like side #1 has.
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Need a full day IN the shop, just to get everything caught up...maybe Saturday?
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 04-02-2017
Well, a rust hunt turned into a trade day. Traded two planes to get two better planes...rehabbed one up yesterday......and did a bit of drawer work..
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Milled some grooves for the drawer bottom
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Milled a dado for the false back, a rebate for the real back, cut the backs to height, and went to the Forest of Clamps
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Why two backs for a drawer?
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When there is a secret compartment in the back of the drawer.
Teaser from one of the planes I rehabbed..
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"Groovy, man, just groovy.."
RE: Pine Table Project - Arlin Eastman - 04-02-2017
I still really like the beading on the legs you did.
Just wondering how the some of the dovetails were right and some short?
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 04-02-2017
The one board was cupped a bit.....glued it up, flattened out the curved front..
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Got the rest of these mortises done today, the long ones..
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the short ones
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And the dovetails at the top of the legs to house a rail for above the drawer..
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Then did a dry fit, to see how much of a bear this is going to be, to glue up..
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And I could check to make sure the drawer would fit in it's opening.....it did. When the runners that hold the drawer sides go in, I'll need to keep them a hair higher than the bottom rail. Evens the gap around the drawer, also prevents wear and tear on the bottom rail.
Oh, and I managed to rehab a Millers Falls No. 9 smooth plane today, as well.....just another day in the shop..
IF you hear a lot of cussing coming from me end of town, you'll know when am glueing up the base for this table.
.stay tuned
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 04-02-2017
Yep, LOTS of cussing and fussing going on, but...
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We have a glue up....
Started to make corner blocks, so I can attach a top to this table......didn't want to go banging around to dovetail them in
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i did get some layout lines for the blocks back there....then decided I had had more than enough fun for one day
BTW: the sides of the drawer had bowed a bit.....took a Stanley #5-1/2 Jumbo jack plane, and removed the bowed parts. Drawer fits, again...have to keep an eye on that...
RE: Pine Table Project - bandit571 - 04-03-2017
Hmmm..Monday, usually the shop is closed..but, I THOUGHT I'd at least get the clamps off...yeah right....
Corner blocks and a kicker are installed, with slots drilled to attach the top..
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Added a thin scrap as a drawer guide to the inside of the aprons, and a runner with a stop block for the drawer to ride on, and stop where it should..
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Planed the front of the drawer flat
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And made a knob for it, from and old finial...that just happened to have a threaded insert in it's base.
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While working on the drawer runners. noticed the non-beaded corners of the legs looked a bit too...plain..we have ways..
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Out of photo room? well, then..stay tuned, more to come
