I’ve been making slow but steady progress on the desk. I’ve been making lots of tenons and doing lots of fitting into mortises. 
The two side case panel frames are together. I still need to make one for the back panel and then on to the internal frames so I can finish up the internal joinery slots for the internal frames.
I saw this old photo on Joel’s site – Tool for Woodworking and thought it was worth sharing. Looks like the saw bench is good for other things than sawing.
I found this link on the The Workbench Diary.
I was really struggling with this mostly because I couldn’t figure out how to hold the work while planing the work. Then I remember this:
This is a photo of Chris showing us how to shoot an edge on the bench .. apparently a french method for getting square edges on their boards. Its also a classic picture of Chris hammin’ for the camera.
I wasn’t really wanting to rub my big No. 6 that I use for shooting across my bench top, so I decided to make a longer shooting board. It’s made of 3/4 inch baltic birch plywood with a maple stop. Oh and I put wide Nylo-Tape Friction Free Drawer Slide Tape in the slot where the plane rides.
And wa la square edges!!
I got a few more hours to work a bit more on the case sides for the desk .. which basically meant I go to make mortises. Does anyone like making mortise? Maybe if you have a Domino (See, Schwarz DID use power tools). Actually this set has worked well for me. Its a jig I got out of Bill Hylton’s book.
Oh and I got to use ugly jack plane again to get some boards to the proper thickness. I even unintentionally brushed my finger against the blade and cut it. That old blade seems to be holding a nice edge just fine. But I might have to find a new lever cap .. at least .. for that thing. It shore is ooogly. 😉
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