desk – Page 7

Getting Even

I’ve been putting grooves in the internal frames pieces and finishing up the frame and stile parts for the case sides.

I needed to cut the angled feet. The gallery below tells how I cut and finished the feet.

Since I want them all to be the same, I grouped them in the vise and cleaned off the saw marks.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas .. I mean a desk.

I hope to be making a lot of progress over the Christmas break.

I just got my February 2013 Fine Woodworking magazine and they were talking about fitting tenons. It was a good article, but I do something a little different (not necessarily better) at least for the tenon cheeks. Their fitting involves using a shoulder plane for the shoulder and a skewed rabbet plane for the cheeks.

Chris Schwarz talks about it a bit here (since I can’t share the FW article).

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So for what it’s worth, here’s the way I do it.

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Slow but steady progress on the Desk

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on the desk. I’ve been making lots of tenons and doing lots of fitting into mortises.

The two side case panel frames are together. I still need to make one for the back panel and then on to the internal frames so I can finish up the internal joinery slots for the internal frames.

Making square edges on my smaller pieces

I was really struggling with this mostly because I couldn’t figure out how to hold the work while planing the work. Then I remember this:

This is a photo of Chris showing us how to shoot an edge on the bench .. apparently a french method for getting square edges on their boards. Its also a classic picture of Chris hammin’ for the camera.

I wasn’t really wanting to rub my big No. 6 that I use for shooting across my bench top, so I decided to make a longer shooting board. It’s made of 3/4 inch baltic birch plywood with a maple stop. Oh and I put wide Nylo-Tape Friction Free Drawer Slide Tape in the slot where the plane rides.

And wa la square edges!!