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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.

#woodworking

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.

#woodworking

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.