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The Work Itself

First I laid out the hinge with a marking knife and scored the waste with my chisel.

Then I removed most of the waste with a freshly sharpened chisel.

Then I set up the small router to the thickness of the hinge.

And used it to go to final thickness.

Hinge in.

This is the last stretcher piece to go in.

Tail laid out on the front leg.

Slicing the grain to create the tail slot.

Tail in (sorry about the crappy photo).

Final stretcher in!

I’m sooooo close to being done I’m staring to think hard about my next project.  I need to install the key board tray pull out and put on the finish.  Yippee!

More info on router planes here:

Gang trimming the side pieces and drawer front.

Squaring the ends to the right size.

Spoke shave was used to smooth out the shape after band sawing.

A rasp was used to shape curves and finally 220 sand paper.

Glue up.

Today I got a chance to final cut the drawer parts and do a glue up.  I use the band saw to cut out the drawer front, then cleaned them up with a spoke shave and rasp.  

A friend of mine live near a plastics outlet and picked up a nice thick sheet of plastic that keeps the glue off my bench.  The hide glue wipes off easily and then I tuck the sheets away.  And the sheet is big enough to cover the full width of my bench.  Sweet!

We went to a new nieghborhood restaurant tonight and I found myself a new workbench.  I asked the proprietor about the table.  Its a 23′ x 31″ wide  3″ thick clear piece of vertical grained fir.  It was salvaged off the coast of Alaska.  It’ the perfect height for me. 😀

Here’s a better shot from the web site.