I finished up all my drawers and fitting them into the cabinet today. I’m going to finish these parts while working on the main desk.
Gratuitous Tool Shot below.
Sneakin’ in some time to work on the drawers
We’ve had really nice, warm weather here. Translation, the garden is demanding to be tended. But I’ve been sneaking into the shop and working on my drawers .. no! not those drawers silly, these.
Two drawers in
Trimmed the sides of the drawers to fiit.
Clamped on the glides and ..
Popped them in.
One more drawer to go and on to assembly.
Hide glue on plastic
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!
I found me a new work bench ..
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.
sheworkswood.com 