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#31
Your Mom sick or your Wife?

Either way I will be praying for her and you.
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#32
Mom is going into Hospice care.   Myself?   BAD Maigraine last night...was put in the hospital overnight. 

day after a maigraine headache ...sucks.   Nothing looks the same, bright lights are a no-no.
Managed to get a few dovetails cobbled up   
   

At least enough for a dry fit on the back corners..
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Will do a full write up, when I get to feeling better...
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#33
OK, see how this goes.   Through dovetails....need to lay out a few tools...first
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Mainly to lay out a few lines for this to follow, or stop at
   
This is my dovetail saw  Seems to do a decent enough job
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For me, it is pins first....
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Then a mallet and a sharp chisel.   chop about 1/2 down, and leave a bit for support, for when I flip the board over..
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And chop the rest out.   Then use these pins to mark out the tails...bandsaw to make a few cuts...simply because I can see the cuts being made better....I need to saw on the waste side of the lines,  trying to leave the lines 
   
Then chop out the waste, the same way I did with the pins....
   
Then try a dry fit 
   
A little snug?   I can pare a pin or two...better than being too loose
Got both ends of the back done set those over on the desk..
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Which leaves the tails out in front to do...using the pins as a layout  
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And, about this point, that migraine hit...hard
No  closed up shop for a while....
May be a day or two....stay tuned
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#34
Been a long, strange weekend
Rolleyes  Finally was able to sneak down to the shop for a bit, until I felt tired and sore....about an hour or so
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Those "pins"?    Used those to lay out the tails..
   
Much better, when I can actually SEE what I am doing....
Winkgrin Bandsaw to make a few cuts.   Chop a bit on this face, about 1/2 way down.  then flip this over..
   
And finish the chopping.   At least I get to sit down doing this job
Cool  Then a dry fit, or 3...
   
Until this end fits.  Then repeat for the other end.....and then another dry fit 
   
And a view of the side?
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Still a dry fit, nothing glued up.  Clamp is because I needed things to sit still, while I get the "Thins" marked for size
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This one is for a couple drawers to sit on.  Need to mill a stopped dado for it to sit into the sides, and up against the back wall.   Had to plane it S4S. 
   
These will get a few pencil grooves.   Have a thin strip for along the back edge of these 
   
Ends of this one also sit in a dado, pencil holders get glue and nails. 
And that was about it for today....will see what the week allows...stay tuned  
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#35
Enjoying the ride.
Take care...
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#36
(01-13-2019, 04:50 PM)AgGEM Wrote: Enjoying the ride.
Take care...

+1

thanks Bandit!
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#37

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Doing short shop times...work a while, rest a day....Today's was about making pencil grooves, and a mortise, or two.

My Stanley 45 doesn't have the small "cove" cutters, it has a 3/4" wide one...a little too wide for pens & pencils to sit in...Had to scrounge up a small cove bit for the router..
Uhoh 
Could not think of a safe, easy way to mill grooves with a hand held router....hmmm
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Table itself is a SKIL,  about the same as Norm Abram started with.   Router?
   
An all-metal, B&D 1/4" collett.   Takes these two wrenches to change the bits..
   
Set up the cove bit, fence is my homemade do-everything guide/fence..
All this, just to mill 4 grooves?  
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Then remove the bit, and set the router table back into it's place in the shop..
   
Until the next time I need it..
Next was a couple of these..things
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Behind the pencil/pen holders is a thin strip of hardwood.   Holders get glued to the front. thin strip sits in a dado at each end...hand saw to start this excavation
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Chisels to get this ready for a test fit..
   
Then figured out where a mortise needed to go, to hold one end of the drawer runner.   Drawer reside on this, with the top of the case preventing any tipping.   Runner does not need to go all the way to the back.   I'll cut the drawers' sides long enough, that they will reach to the back.
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And, that was it for today.   Tomorrow, I can chop the other two slots...and maybe start on the resaw stuff..
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Stay tuned..
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#38
I do think those are the best dovetails I have ever seen you make.  Very nice.
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#39
I used to have the same small router table.  Served me well until I built a new one in my table saw wing.

Phil
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#40
If nobody minds...I'll be taking a few days off from the shop.   Mom passed away this morning, have a Funeral to get ready for....
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