06-27-2022, 10:18 AM
3 tasks to do, and not much time to do them...
Start with those pads for the feet..easy to do, don't have to move the chest, just yet..
Just center them up, and hammer them into place. next?
Wanted the chest down on the shop floor, easier to just sit down on my shop stool, and chop hinge mortises...but where to sit this thing?
Well..IF I shove the tablesaw back as far as I can go, and (HORRORS!) sweep the floor...
But, this puts my fat body between the work and the overhead shop lights...we have ways..
To get back into the spotlight. went to layout for the hinges..there was a problem..
I do not like the gap...we have ways...
Set up the Monarch Vise in the end vise of the bench...squeeze both hinges until the gap is closed up, hammer assist to align the pin straight...then put the vise away, and lay out where the hinges will go...
Again, another "problem"....Normally, I lay a hinge at the corner of the box..make a mark, shift the hinge over that mark....the space of ONE hinge from the corner of a box. Not this time....there is a T&G joint in the way....so..we go 2 hinge widths from the corner.
Lay out a few tools, set the lid up out of the way, too...
had to strop that width chisel, before I could start in..
Timer was set at 60 minutes...already used over half of that..might get some OverTime, on a Sunday?
Stay tuned..
Start with those pads for the feet..easy to do, don't have to move the chest, just yet..
Just center them up, and hammer them into place. next?
Wanted the chest down on the shop floor, easier to just sit down on my shop stool, and chop hinge mortises...but where to sit this thing?
Well..IF I shove the tablesaw back as far as I can go, and (HORRORS!) sweep the floor...
But, this puts my fat body between the work and the overhead shop lights...we have ways..
To get back into the spotlight. went to layout for the hinges..there was a problem..
I do not like the gap...we have ways...
Set up the Monarch Vise in the end vise of the bench...squeeze both hinges until the gap is closed up, hammer assist to align the pin straight...then put the vise away, and lay out where the hinges will go...
Again, another "problem"....Normally, I lay a hinge at the corner of the box..make a mark, shift the hinge over that mark....the space of ONE hinge from the corner of a box. Not this time....there is a T&G joint in the way....so..we go 2 hinge widths from the corner.
Lay out a few tools, set the lid up out of the way, too...
had to strop that width chisel, before I could start in..
Timer was set at 60 minutes...already used over half of that..might get some OverTime, on a Sunday?
Stay tuned..
Show me a picture, I'll build a project from that