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One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-05-2022
I've been itching to rework another machinist's chest. After the last boxes recovered over several years, I narrowed down a 2022 search. I realized I don't actually need a (hinged) top "till", and I consider the front-panel to be optional. True Gerstner's are the best but they reflect that in their cost, even when falling apart.
This no-name oak box just came in today!
Just enough missing parts to make it interesting:
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Wood can be planed clean, for the most part, but the grain on the carcass isn't as pretty as quartersawn or rift-sawn:
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I think I have enough oak on hand to make whatever I decide to replace:
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With weather getting nice, I won't be on it very often, but I heard once an old German proverb.... "work is not like a shy animal, it will still be there when you come back to it".
Chris
RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - museumguy - 03-06-2022
I love these type of threads. I bought a cardboard box full 0f original Gerstner drawers. One day, I will make a case to hold them, hopefully authentic looking. Keep us posted with your progress please.
RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-06-2022
Many thanks, museumguy!
My mind is working on this with some occasional shop visits and picture taking. Main thought trails are now:
(1.) The wood is probably more recoverable than I thought
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(2.) The carcass joinery is a locking rabbet style, which plays into the next thoughts about re-build-ability and perhaps re-proportioning.
(3.) I feel like the proportions need to be adjusted. The drawers are kind of long, and I don't think they'd be practical and sturdy if fully loaded. One of my guilty pleasures is watching car-channel TV programs like Iron Resurrection, Full Custom Garage, etc.
So... I am actually thinking about a "chop and lower" approach here, rendered in poor-man's photoshop:
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Chris
RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - toolmiser - 03-06-2022
I've got two that I need to make a couple drawers and fronts for. Always so little time and ambition.
RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-09-2022
I took off all the corner-metals and broke down the carcass with my rawhide mallet.
This allowed a nice sweeping pass with my No. 14 plane over the 'beauty' pieces. But the top did crack after some whacking, so it's now gluing back together, using 3 cam-clamps:
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RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-11-2022
Both the top and the bottom boards needed gluing back together. Once that was done, I decided to proceed with the "chop and lower" plan. About 3/4" of height and 2" of width are now removed from further relevance.
Of course, now I have to go and narrow the width of every drawer....
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RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - toolmiser - 03-11-2022
(03-06-2022, 08:55 PM)toolmiser Wrote: I've got two that I need to make a couple drawers and fronts for. Always so little time and ambition.
Correction I have three. I guess my shop needed a little tidying up. I 'm hoping to get them back in shape and give two of them to my girls for jewelry boxes. I'm sure they will want them (yeah right).
RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-15-2022
The planned ~ 2 inches of width reduction is rippling through every lateral piece on the whole thing. I still like the idea, but the workload went way up.
Here the plywood back is freshly re-sized, edge rabbets tuned with my 140 plane. I had chiseled and jack-planed away the outermost ugly brown layer of plywood (which looked to be 'peeled' rather than 'planar sliced' veneer), and I plan to glue some better-figured oak veneer onto it:
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RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - C. in Indy - 03-17-2022
Top-o-the-Mornin' to You!
And... figured-grain veneer is a pain to work with, but I'm using what I had on hand. It's not visually perfect, but this revised carcass is now rock solid. Up next will be a lot of drawers. Along the way I figured out the one missing drawer is of slightly different height than the other 7 drawers (!) ....
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RE: One man's trash, another man's trophy (case) - Arlin Eastman - 03-18-2022
And the rest of the day to you.
Just looking at your wall and thinking if you need any trimming just use the hatchet.
