Brutkey

Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

I leaned pretty heavily on a planer sled to establish a face side for all of them this time. I had two boards flat enough to run straight through the planer but all the others all needed shimming of some kind.

This was the worst of them (it’s a really pretty board though!)

16 boards took me most of the day using this method. Maybe I should have just done it with hand tools like I used to. 😂😂

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A walnut board on top of a planer sled with eight shims in various locations around the board to keep it flat while it runs through the planer.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

The temps went from 50 F yesterday down to the teens today so it was chilly running the thickness planer in the garage. 🥶🥶

But since I already had the face side work done, it didn’t take nearly as long as yesterday.

Except for a few bandsaw rips, this will be the last of the power tools for the build.

Tomorrow is edge jointing and hopefully I can get started on gluing up the panels! Exciting!

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Stacks of walnut boards that appear flat and all having a uniform thickness.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

And my little helper today. Lucy has a keen eye for matching boards to panel sections.

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A white pit bull in a green dog jacket looking to her left. There are many walnut boards laying flat on the ground. The dog is sitting on two of the boards.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

Goodbye loud machines and hello to the zen state of hand plans.

It’s edge jointing day! Probably the first of many. I haven’t jointed by hand in over a year so kind of proud to see I still got it.

I was going to joint and glue-up each panel section one-by-one but I think I might do all the boards first and then have one big glue-up. Maybe that will cut down on warping if panels are sitting around for a long time?

Either way, I’m very slow. It’ll be a miracle if I finish this in 2026.

Pictured is the bottom panel of the carcas which is all I was able to get done today.

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A close up of several walnut boards clamped together on their edges with no gaps. Four walnut boards laying side by side with a quarter inch gap between them. It’s showing the boards before clamping. Four walnut boards laying side by side with clamps and the gaps closed.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

Hopefully this will be the last photo of “stacked wood” but the significance of this one is that I finally finished dimensioning and jointing all the case boards. 🎉🎉

I’ve logged about 25 hours this week so that’s about 1.5 hrs per board. These fuckers are straight and true though.

Aiming for a glue-up this weekend.

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Four stacks of four boards of walnut on top of saw horses. A No. 7 jointer plane on top of the ended of a walnut board. The board is clamped in the bench vise.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

That’s a wrap for this week. Work is starting back up tomorrow so things will be much slower now.

My goal was to get the case sections ready for joinery. I’m close. I have one more panel that needs final flattening otherwise I’m calling the week a #woodworking success (not without a lot of aches and pains along the way though 🤪🤪).

Several walnut boards laying flat with their edges touching. There are clamps pressing them together with a small amount of glue squeezing out of the edges. Stacked panels of walnut wood smooth and flat.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

A little more progress with marking out joinery and starting to cut dovetails. I decided on tails facing up and corners mitered.

But it’s single digits in Chicago today so everything is stinking cold. I only managed to cut one set of tails before I retreated to a warmer upstairs.

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A red coping saw cutting the waste between dovetails in walnut wood. The waste cut out between dovetail joints in a walnut panel.
Jami :heart_cyber:
@jamigibbs@hachyderm.io

I had to put this project on pause to refinish a chair over the last few weekends but I'm back chipping away at it.

Something that's been worrying me since drawing out the plans was how I was going to transfer the tails to the pin board because the case pieces are so big.

It took a little ingenuity but problem solved. This workbench is the gift that keeps on giving.

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The long side piece of a cabinet case laying flat on top of a workbench. It's elevated about six inches off the workbench top. On the end of the workbench is another shorter piece that meets the end of the long piece at a 90 degree angle. The long piece is sitting on top of the end of the short piece so that dovetail marks can be transfered to the short pin board piece. Two walnut boards meeting at a 90 degree angle. The top board has dovetails that will be transfered to the board below it.