jointer plane

Some times you just need a jointer ..

I got a little time to clean up the carcass so that I can move on the .. dun, dun, dun .. molding (yikes!). Haven’t done molding yet and the class I’m taking to learn how to do it is still far off. Anyway, here’s a few shots of the progress.

My jointer worked perfectly to true up the top of the chest.

Here’s a quick shot of the chest all together.

The darker spots are where I didn’t quite get all the shellac off. But no worries, a coat of shellac will be the first layer of finish.

Molding stock. Fortunately, this will fit through the planer .. so I only have to flatten one side.

Creating the key board drawer front

After sawing the 45 degree angle, I double checked it.

Then I set up the jointer and gauge fence for clean up.

The fence helped keep the angle as I cleaned off the saw marks.

Then I did a final localized clean up with my block plane.

After I cleaned up, I double check the angle again.

Then I used my small router to create a mortise for the hinges.

One side of the hinge done.

Above is the process I used to create the fold down drawer front for the pull out key board tray. The drawer front is not yet cut to size so it will be significantly smaller.

A sneak peak at the desk top

13″ of quarter sawn african mahogany

planed edge

A friend of mine is helping me rout spline groove in the edges of my desk top pieces over the weekend on his router table. I’m preping the boards so that it’ll all be ready for the router and glue up.

Yippee! It actually works!

Tonight I got to test drive both my new re-furbed jointer and my bench. Both worked superbly!

What fun!

And here’s a close up of my new jointer (Thanks Mike! And Mike, this video clip below is for you if you’re still thinkin’ that you want you jointer plane back ;o))

For Mike

Final Jointer plane pics and test run

So after some sanding on the bottom and sides to do a little flattening and rust removal, I worked on the frog. Once I flattened the areas on the frog, I put sticky sandpaper on the newly flatten surfaces and flattened the mating surface on the plane base.

Here are a couple of shots of the whole plane after I worked on it. I started at 100 grit, went down several grits down and did a final polish with some 600 wet dry I had laying around.

Then I did my first test run. I got crumpled shavings and a lot of chatter on the first pass.

So I pulled out the blade and chip breaker to see if I could see light between them and sure enough, I still had some light peeking through. I took the chip breaker, clamped it up in my honeing guide and made some more passes over the sand paper.

This time I got nice ribbon shavings and a lot less chatter. I might need to work with the chip beaker some more to get all the chatter out .. we’ll see on I get my workbench back in operation.