rabbet – She Works Wood & Leather

The drawer, project archive and the last post for the Six Board Chest

Drawer installed!

Making rabbets for the drawers.

Plowing grooves.

Beveling the edge of the drawer bottom.

Drawer side.

Installed!

This is the final post for the six board chest project. If you’d like to find all the posts in one place instead of having to search for them you can go to the project page below or click on the link Six Board Chest under the heading Pages/Projects on the right of this page.

Six Board Chest Project Archive

Moulding for the six board chest

Start with milled squared stock. Mount on a sticking board.

Then layout lines per Matt Bickford’s Mouldings book.

Scribe deep layout lines on the top for the first rabbet.

Mark depths on the sides and ends. BTW, I marked the line for the round plane incorrectly here.

Cut the first rabbet to the correct depth. Start the cut by turning the rabbet on its edge and sticking the edge of the blade in the marking gauge line.

Once its cut to the proper depth mark in the width of the second rabbet.

Cut the second rabbet and mark the third.

Remove the center ridges with the No. 6 round.

Even up across the length of the moulding.

I used Matt Bickford’s Mouldings in Practice to do the lay out, a rabbet (rebate) plane and a No. 6 hollow to make this moulding. I also used milled on six side straight grained Sapele. Hopefully, the pictures explain the steps sufficiently.

Taking my new Philly rabbet plane for a spin

So I got a few minuets at the end of my week of vacation to take my new rabbet plane out for a spin. Here’s my first attempt a simple moulding.

My new Philly plane.

Makin’ rabbets!

Final moulding after a bit of sanding.

Another shot of my new rabbet plane.

Fun with Feet

Working on the feet and matching them to the side pattern.

Front with feet clamped in place.

Temp and humidity not too bad.

Got a little bit of time to work on the decorative feet for the front of the chest. I used my rabbet plane to cut rabbets on the back of the feet so that they’ll attach to the side pieces. The molding will cover the seams and nails.

Its a chest!

So thankfully I put together some test joints with my nails before I put them in my final pieces. It was splits-ville three times before I got the right size pilot hole.