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