Category: six board chest

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. 

Made my sticking board .. finally.

For my Six Board Chest, I really wanted to give hand cut mouldings a try.  It’ll be a simple one, so don’t get too excited.  I knew some day a project require the sticking board, but I just hadn’t gotten around to making one.  Now the only problem is to find a place to store it. Its an 8′ long board.

Its an easy project.  I picked up a 1×12′ piece of Popular from Home Depot.  I ripped off two 2″ wide pieces, glued and screwed each piece to one side and trued up the inside edge with my Veritas Jack Rabbet plane.  I also attached a bench hook strip to one end so that I can clamp it in my end vice while pushing it up against my bench dogs.  And Wa-la!!  A sticking board.

Oh, and I have on of Philip Edward’s rabbet planes on the way to cut rabbets with.  So here’s hopin’ this goes well.

8′ sticking board with bench hook end.
Clamped in the vise.
My new Philly 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.

Ewww .. pretty board, pretty board

I started cleaning up the stock I got for the moulding piece that wraps around the bottom of the chest.  Its obviously straight grained and joy to work with compared to the twisty, turney grain in the other boards.  It’s smaller size and ease of working made it an easy evening project.

Cleaning off the fuzz and flattening one side with my jack plane.
Jack plane scallops on straight grained Sapele. Wonder which wine you pair it with. (note to self: must eat a bit more dinner).
Fresh out of the planer with a gorgeous surface. Can’t wait to see it under finish.