layout – She Works Wood & Leather

Hinges

Installing hinges still makes me nervous. These are a bit more trickery than what I’ve done before. But as usual, Marc at the Wood Whisperer (membership required) has a great step by step process.

I used super glue to attach the hinge temporarily for outlining.

After removing the hinge, I used a router and carving gouge to remove the waste inside the pencil/marking knife lines.

More waste removal.

Hinge in place.

With the hinges in place in the bottom case, I laid out hinge locations in the top.

I used CA glue to attach the hinge while I marked around the hinge.

I also needed to drill out the mortise for hinge arm.

Hinge and arm set in the bottom.

Mortise for the arm in the top.

Hinge installed.

A place for my plans and the Bed Side Table

I finished my cutting board this weekend and started layout on the bedside table. Lucky for me Marc, Matt and Shannon were talking about build order on the last Woodtalk Online. Its a good one and worth a listen. So I sat down and made my outline/build order from the plans and sketch up file. And … I found a great place to put the outline and parts list.

On to leg layout.

Starting the Desk

I started working on the desk now that the work bench is complete. We need a desk something awful. Right now, all the “desk” work is getting done on a worn out scratched up old table. Here’s a quick pic of what the desk will look like.

I don’t know about you, but at this point of the project I always feel a bit overwhelmed. I know that I need to break the project down into small steps and work to complete those. I have to tools, the plans and help if I need it, but never the less I seem to always feel this way at the beginning.

Here’s a quick gallery of what I done so far.

This is a trick I learned (from somewhere) to even up and clean up all of the legs at once.

I used my story stick and fabulous fractions calculator to lay out the mortise on the legs of the cabinet.

Here are the three paneled sides that will make up the cabinet.

Workbench mortise layout

So maybe I’m paranoid, but when I laid out my mortise for my chest of drawers, I had troubles. So I used a story stick for this project and lined every thing up using the top of the legs.

We’ll see how it worked when I start putting everything together. I’ll be using this in my next project as well for my desk cabinet.