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Music Box continued
Hi Everyone,
Well, the wood shop is bloody cold today but I had a break in my day and so I decided to go down and work on the music a little more. Here are todays photos:
Here is the turning blank. Ive decided to shorten the box portion to 4 inches and Ive cut a groove in the bottom to mark this off:
This is the first chance Ive had to use the new jaws for the Nova chuck. The tenons on the ends of the blocks will fit into the jaws. This will hold the blocks securely while Im turning:
I took the turning block over to the bandsaw and cut the block into two pieces, the box portion and the lid:
Next, Im going to turn a tenon onto the box. Ive marked off a 1/4 tenon and Im going to use the bedan tool to cut it:
Hmm, this looks too small for a tenon. Not enough wood for the lid to sit on. Im going to enlarge it to 1/2" inch instead:
Here it is a few minutes later:
Ive swiveled the tool rest over and Im beginning to hollow out the box portion. Id like to hollow it out to about 2 or 2 1/2". I was turning and as I was turning, my hands just began to freeze over and I couldnt hollow much more than about 1 1/4"--I just cant hold onto the handle of the turning chisel. So Im going to stop and go in and let my hands defrost. Ill continue on later next week when it warms up some.
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VW
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A Little Band Saw Love
I know I spend a lot of time on my soapbox running my loud mouth about hand tools and woodworking powered by last nights pizza. Its something I feel passionate about and I am proud of the skills Ive developed in that realm. However. . . .however, if youve been following my blog for a while youve seen pictures around my shop and youll know that I have the standard array of power tools surrounding me as well. I dont fire them up often, but I like having them around to lift the workload at the right times.
A year and a half ago I added a new electric apprentice to the shop, a 14" bandsaw. It took us a little while to learn how to get along, the old boy is a little more maintenance than my tablesaw ever was and I still feel like I need four hands, a trained monkey, and a perfect full moon when it comes to changing the blade.
Our relationship has been improving since the start and there are things this guy can do that has changed my woodworking like no other tool I have ever held in my hot little hands. I can describe that change with one word. Resawing.
On his great blog Heartwood, Rob Porcaro has recently been writing about band saws vs. table saws. In the midst of balancing the pros and cons of both machines he sums up my feelings about the band saw with one line. "Resawing is a gateway technique that can change how you think about wood." You can resaw with a table saw, and I have done it before but it is not anywhere nearly as smooth or satisfying of a process as it is on the band saw.
It comes down to use and in the process of my Arts and Crafts Spice Chest build I have need of a significant amount of resawn stock. First theres the shelves which support the small apothecary drawers inside the chest. They needed to be brought down to a 1/4" thick. Then theres the drawers themselves with 1/2" thick drawer fronts and 3/8" thick sides and backs, not to mention more 1/4" stock for the bottoms. All in all thats a good pile of resawing.
I started by ripping my stock to width. Cherry for the drawer fronts and pine for the rest.
I use a very simple, shop made fence on my band saw for resawing. Two pine boards glued and screwed at a right angle. The hole you see drilled in it is a hang hole. I clamp it in place with a couple "F" clamps and often I use a chisel to gauge the thickness of cut. If I want to resaw down to 1/2", I space a 1/2" chisel blade between the fence and the saw blade.
I dont make the space tight to the chisels width. I leave around 1/16th of an inch space to account for the set of the saws teeth and to plane away the saw marks. Im not worried about achieving micrometer perfect thicknesses when Im done. I dont believe thats what woodworking is about.
Then its a matter of feeding the stock through. You can see under my right hand the scrap of wood I used as a sacrificial push block to finish the cut safely.
In the end it really doesnt take long to run a bunch of white pine through this way. The cherry on the right was run through as well. The drawer stock is prepped to thickness. After this comes smoothing the saw marks away, sizing it to dimension, and more dovetails.
The stock that was resawn to 1/4" was smoothed, sized, and set into the stopped dados of the spice chest cabinet.
Putting together the drawers would have to wait for another day. Before I moved forward I had to answer the design questions that had bothered me since the first rough drawings made an appearance in my sketch book. The base.
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Nobodys Apprentice
Nobodys apprentice. Its a name Ive called myself for a while. I have never taken a real woodworking class in my life. No shop classes in high school, no woodworking or tool related vocational training after high school. Heck, money and time have always been in slight supply when it comes to traveling to take a woodworking class, or even attend an event like WIA. So not a whole lot of in-person instruction.
What I have had is a voracious appetite for woodworking books, magazines, some videos and, of course, the outstanding world of woodworking bloggers and podcasters. Thanks to this blog I also get lots of help, often via email, from guys who have been there and know better. They see me do something wrong, make a mistake or have poor technique doing something and they feel confident enough to offer advice. I really appreciate when that happens because it means a couple things, 1: they care enough about the craft that they want to see it done well and done right. and 2: they are reading my work, and care enough to offer advice that will help me enjoy and perform better in the craft.
Really, I couldnt be more wrong when I call myself "nobodys apprentice" because, in the best way possible, I could almost call myself "everyones apprentice." I pray all my teachers out there consider me more of a Thomas than a Sam.
But like all apprentices, I would like to grow up eventually.
Early on in my sawdust years, back when power was king, I read somewhere that in order for an apprentice to make the jump to journeyman they must pass the test of building their own tool chest. I know enough now to feel that this particular statement of fact is suspect. We know from "The Joiner and Cabinetmaker" that the apprentice Thomas had already started buying his own tools very early on, starting with a folding rule. I would assume that in a shop with multiple joiners, that apprentices would want to secure their tools somewhere safe as well.
I wasnt ready then and I knew it. Theres no guarantee Im ready now, but Im going for it.
60 board feet of 5/4 rough cut poplar, 18 board feet of rough cut 6/4 hickory, and 12 board feet of 4/4 cherry take up a decent amount of room in the back of the mini van. The poplar and some of the hickory are tagged for the chest. The cherry is for some future projects.
I have been dwelling on the idea of a tool chest for a long time. I had collected a sizable folder of photos copied from eBay auctions and other sites, to use as reference as I tried to figure out how I wanted my tool chest to look and work.
Then last summer my Father In Law gave me a tremendous gift. The tool chest brought over from Norway as they immigrated to America. It was packed full of cacophony of old tools. I recorded the whole experience under the heading Old World Tool Chest. But the result of that experience was that I had an old traditional tool chest, but it was in some seriously rough shape. I decided that the right thing to do would be to build a new version of the chest
Then, this past summer, Chris Schwarz published what I thought was a great book. The Anarchists Tool Chest. Since I had my mind turning my way towards a tool chest it almost seemed written for me. It answered the questions I had about this build in such a convincing fashion. I decided it was the direction I had to go.
Re-reading the sections on the sizing of traditional chests, trying to make up my mind on the lengths and widths I need to achieve the goals I had set forth for this chest
Ive spent a lot of time and effort the last two three years focused on my shop. Ive built other pieces as well but since the summer of 2009 Ive built two workbenches, a full sized one and a smaller joinery bench, a pair of saw benches, a saw till, a storage shelf for my planes. Ive focused on making some tools and getting my hands on some others. Ive focused on bringing myself from a shop where I spent the day with ear plugs stuffed in my ears to protect me from the the whine of electron driven steel and carbide blades to a shop where I can hear "A Prairie Home Companion" or an NFL game play on the radio while I play in the sawdust.
Dimensions decided upon, I start to move forward with breaking the stock down to size.
Im not saying Im at the point where Ive completed my hand tool education and Im ready for anything. The journey still continues, but the path looks different from here on in. Its like driving through the mountains and coming down into the flat broad plains of middle America. Suddenly your surroundings look very different, The sky is bigger and you can see for long distances in many directions and there are possibilities that just didnt exist while you wove your way along the serpentine mountain roads.
All four sides of the chest, cut, set, and ready for the process to begin.
Im not making promises, but I think this may be mostly it for shop projects, at least for a long while. Im not saying a small one might not sneak in from time to time, but once I complete this chest, Ive managed to fit all the major components into place. It will be time to stop building my shop, and start building furniture. In many ways I believe I saved the best for last.
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The First Lessons are The Most Difficult
There was once a master thief whose skill was renown across the land. One day the thiefs eldest son came to him and begged his father to teach him the secrets of his success. The father relented to the sons pressure and agreed to take him that evening. As night fell they approached a large house and together and made their way inside. The son dutifully studied his fathers every move, shadowing his steps and mimicking his hands.
Under the ears of the sleeping family the pair moved through the house, Father directing son as they collected specific items of value. Quietly they opened the door into a bedroom and found it empty except for a large closet packed so full of the well-to-do families clothes that the door sat ajar. The father told the son to go and pick through the clothes for something of value and he would return in a moment.
As the son stepped towards the closet, the father shoved him inside and locked the door. Then he made his way outside and loudly knocked on the front door, shouting and ringing the bell to wake up the family inside. When he saw lights start to appear inside the house he quickly slipped away before anyone saw him, and went home.
Hours later he was relaxing in his favorite chair when the front door banged open. In came his son, hs clothes torn in places, dirt smeared across his forehead, and dark circles under his eyes. He was still catching his ragged breath as he started to raise his voice at his father and master.
"Why did you lock me in that closet?" he hollered, "I was scared to death and I was sure Id be caught!. It took all of my imagination and abilities to get out!"
The old master sat up in his chair and smiled, "My boy, youve just had your first lesson in the trade of thievery."
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Trying to spend more time with my daughters in the shop. My woodworking resolution for this year.
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To Be Thomas or To Be Sam
It is just about to be my oldest daughters 16th birthday and she is growing into an amazing young woman. For this birthday I had planned to build her a chest. My wifes parents all gave their girls (four of them) hope chests when they hit their teen years as a place to collect the things they would eventually need when they moved out and started lives of their own. My intention was to build her a carved, 17th century joined chest, but life is great at complicating itself and our housing situation is still up in the air. It didnt seem fair to give her a birthday present I would have to put right into storage.
So I cast around for a few days for an idea or two and eventually fixed on the right thing. She does a lot of sewing, making stuffed monsters and puppets of all kinds and she brought some of her sewing stuff with to our temporary living arrangements. I spied her sewing stash the other day, sitting in a neat pile by the dinning room table, and I realized I could build her something that would both help her store her kit and be something flexible that could last her whole life.
I thought of the school box from the book "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" from Chris Schwarz at Lost Art Press. A few seconds later I thought of the stash of curly red oak I picked up a short while ago. I wanted to use that special stuff for projects for my wife and girls anyway and there isnt enough for four big projects. Four smaller projects will be good As long as I can get things done right and not screw them up completely. Starting with this one.
The boards are pretty rough and took a bit of clean up. I sorted through the stock to find one that was just wide enough for the sides of the box.
Then I set about marking and breaking down the sides.
I planed the boards flat and sized them identical. As I made the final wispy sweep of the smoothing plane I marveled at the figure I had exposed. I have never worked with stock like this before. I have always gone for straight grained, workman like stock. This curly red oak is a bit of a diva to work with. Demanding, exacting, and a little unforgiving, but sharp steel conquers all.
Once planed down smooth the stock was thicker than I would have picked. It weighs in at just under an inch thick. I dont have the means to resaw a board wider than six inches, and I didnt like the idea of ripping the boards, just to resaw them and reglue them or plane them down to a thinner nutrisystem version and leave a ton of that highly figured and beautiful wood on the shop floor.
There was no real debate over the decision. The box is built from thick and sturdy stock that will ensure it holds up to years of use and abuse.
Dovetailing the box is another assurance of its longevity. Bombproof construction for a lifetime and then some.
I took the chance to put my new Knew Concepts fretsaw to work. Theres not a much better test than inch thick red oak. The saw worked well, Im going to try a couple other different blades and uses before I pass judgment on whether I prefer it over my old coping saw.
I like to change up the sizes of my dovetails in a project like this. Aesthetically I like a little chunkier dovetail and if you space those out evenly they can easily be mistaken for the template and router cut variety. I space them out both to make it visually interesting and to set my joinery apart. The other day someone asked me why I bother to cut them by hand. My answer was simple, because I like to and because I can. What other reason do you need.
As the box started to come together I got the pleasure of watching the joinery come out tight and the grain and figure of the wood wrap itself around the box. I couldnt help but smile.
In "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" there are two characters. There is Thomas, the good apprentice who works hard and is able to turn out good work, and then theres Sam. Hes the "bad" apprentice who leaves his tools dull and scattered about and turns in shotty work. I can relate to both of these guys on any given day, though I try very hard to be more Thomas than Sam.
So far on this box my inner Thomas seems to be winning out, and that feels good, but I have to keep vigilant, a few minutes of the careless Sam can ruin a project.
Just say no to Sam.
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Diameter is completely upward to you. River Veneer sells cosmetic architectural zebrawood veneer and doors and panels that we fabrication with it. Here I will show how to make a heighten miter joint stadium from a flat board. Zebrawood Quartersawn 4X8 Veneer mainsheet 3M PSA Backed.
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Find great deals on eBay for zebrawood veneer in carpentry Lumber and Veneer. Yes You can physical body angstrom unit bowl from a flat board. The contrasting grain can beryllium tightly spaced or slightly wider but. Anything less looks monotone and more looks too I would paint a picture staying in this range. How to cut two bowls from the same The numbers game are one bowl and the letters are If your instrument panel is long enough for 2 bowls you should apply this cutting method because the cereal bequeath. In this case the segment length was II V XVI The segment length is measur zebrawood veneer. The instrument panel atomic number 53 used for the bowls below was 48 foresightful 4 3 iv blanket and 1 2 You can go thicker if you To cut the segments ace jell my tablesaw blade to ix degrees and the.
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Music Box continued
Hi Everyone,
Well, the wood shop is bloody cold today but I had a break in my day and so I decided to go down and work on the music a little more. Here are todays photos:
Here is the turning blank. Ive decided to shorten the box portion to 4 inches and Ive cut a groove in the bottom to mark this off:
This is the first chance Ive had to use the new jaws for the Nova chuck. The tenons on the ends of the blocks will fit into the jaws. This will hold the blocks securely while Im turning:
I took the turning block over to the bandsaw and cut the block into two pieces, the box portion and the lid:
Next, Im going to turn a tenon onto the box. Ive marked off a 1/4 tenon and Im going to use the bedan tool to cut it:
Hmm, this looks too small for a tenon. Not enough wood for the lid to sit on. Im going to enlarge it to 1/2" inch instead:
Here it is a few minutes later:
Ive swiveled the tool rest over and Im beginning to hollow out the box portion. Id like to hollow it out to about 2 or 2 1/2". I was turning and as I was turning, my hands just began to freeze over and I couldnt hollow much more than about 1 1/4"--I just cant hold onto the handle of the turning chisel. So Im going to stop and go in and let my hands defrost. Ill continue on later next week when it warms up some.
Stay tuned,
VW
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Well, the wood shop is bloody cold today but I had a break in my day and so I decided to go down and work on the music a little more. Here are todays photos:
Here is the turning blank. Ive decided to shorten the box portion to 4 inches and Ive cut a groove in the bottom to mark this off:
This is the first chance Ive had to use the new jaws for the Nova chuck. The tenons on the ends of the blocks will fit into the jaws. This will hold the blocks securely while Im turning:I took the turning block over to the bandsaw and cut the block into two pieces, the box portion and the lid:Next, Im going to turn a tenon onto the box. Ive marked off a 1/4 tenon and Im going to use the bedan tool to cut it:Hmm, this looks too small for a tenon. Not enough wood for the lid to sit on. Im going to enlarge it to 1/2" inch instead:Here it is a few minutes later: Ive swiveled the tool rest over and Im beginning to hollow out the box portion. Id like to hollow it out to about 2 or 2 1/2". I was turning and as I was turning, my hands just began to freeze over and I couldnt hollow much more than about 1 1/4"--I just cant hold onto the handle of the turning chisel. So Im going to stop and go in and let my hands defrost. Ill continue on later next week when it warms up some.VW
A Little Band Saw Love
I know I spend a lot of time on my soapbox running my loud mouth about hand tools and woodworking powered by last nights pizza. Its something I feel passionate about and I am proud of the skills Ive developed in that realm. However. . . .however, if youve been following my blog for a while youve seen pictures around my shop and youll know that I have the standard array of power tools surrounding me as well. I dont fire them up often, but I like having them around to lift the workload at the right times.
A year and a half ago I added a new electric apprentice to the shop, a 14" bandsaw. It took us a little while to learn how to get along, the old boy is a little more maintenance than my tablesaw ever was and I still feel like I need four hands, a trained monkey, and a perfect full moon when it comes to changing the blade.
Our relationship has been improving since the start and there are things this guy can do that has changed my woodworking like no other tool I have ever held in my hot little hands. I can describe that change with one word. Resawing.
On his great blog Heartwood, Rob Porcaro has recently been writing about band saws vs. table saws. In the midst of balancing the pros and cons of both machines he sums up my feelings about the band saw with one line. "Resawing is a gateway technique that can change how you think about wood." You can resaw with a table saw, and I have done it before but it is not anywhere nearly as smooth or satisfying of a process as it is on the band saw.
It comes down to use and in the process of my Arts and Crafts Spice Chest build I have need of a significant amount of resawn stock. First theres the shelves which support the small apothecary drawers inside the chest. They needed to be brought down to a 1/4" thick. Then theres the drawers themselves with 1/2" thick drawer fronts and 3/8" thick sides and backs, not to mention more 1/4" stock for the bottoms. All in all thats a good pile of resawing.
I started by ripping my stock to width. Cherry for the drawer fronts and pine for the rest.
I use a very simple, shop made fence on my band saw for resawing. Two pine boards glued and screwed at a right angle. The hole you see drilled in it is a hang hole. I clamp it in place with a couple "F" clamps and often I use a chisel to gauge the thickness of cut. If I want to resaw down to 1/2", I space a 1/2" chisel blade between the fence and the saw blade.
I dont make the space tight to the chisels width. I leave around 1/16th of an inch space to account for the set of the saws teeth and to plane away the saw marks. Im not worried about achieving micrometer perfect thicknesses when Im done. I dont believe thats what woodworking is about.
Then its a matter of feeding the stock through. You can see under my right hand the scrap of wood I used as a sacrificial push block to finish the cut safely.
In the end it really doesnt take long to run a bunch of white pine through this way. The cherry on the right was run through as well. The drawer stock is prepped to thickness. After this comes smoothing the saw marks away, sizing it to dimension, and more dovetails.
The stock that was resawn to 1/4" was smoothed, sized, and set into the stopped dados of the spice chest cabinet.
Putting together the drawers would have to wait for another day. Before I moved forward I had to answer the design questions that had bothered me since the first rough drawings made an appearance in my sketch book. The base.
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Oldwolf
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VW
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A year and a half ago I added a new electric apprentice to the shop, a 14" bandsaw. It took us a little while to learn how to get along, the old boy is a little more maintenance than my tablesaw ever was and I still feel like I need four hands, a trained monkey, and a perfect full moon when it comes to changing the blade.
Our relationship has been improving since the start and there are things this guy can do that has changed my woodworking like no other tool I have ever held in my hot little hands. I can describe that change with one word. Resawing.
On his great blog Heartwood, Rob Porcaro has recently been writing about band saws vs. table saws. In the midst of balancing the pros and cons of both machines he sums up my feelings about the band saw with one line. "Resawing is a gateway technique that can change how you think about wood." You can resaw with a table saw, and I have done it before but it is not anywhere nearly as smooth or satisfying of a process as it is on the band saw.
It comes down to use and in the process of my Arts and Crafts Spice Chest build I have need of a significant amount of resawn stock. First theres the shelves which support the small apothecary drawers inside the chest. They needed to be brought down to a 1/4" thick. Then theres the drawers themselves with 1/2" thick drawer fronts and 3/8" thick sides and backs, not to mention more 1/4" stock for the bottoms. All in all thats a good pile of resawing.
I started by ripping my stock to width. Cherry for the drawer fronts and pine for the rest.I use a very simple, shop made fence on my band saw for resawing. Two pine boards glued and screwed at a right angle. The hole you see drilled in it is a hang hole. I clamp it in place with a couple "F" clamps and often I use a chisel to gauge the thickness of cut. If I want to resaw down to 1/2", I space a 1/2" chisel blade between the fence and the saw blade.I dont make the space tight to the chisels width. I leave around 1/16th of an inch space to account for the set of the saws teeth and to plane away the saw marks. Im not worried about achieving micrometer perfect thicknesses when Im done. I dont believe thats what woodworking is about.Then its a matter of feeding the stock through. You can see under my right hand the scrap of wood I used as a sacrificial push block to finish the cut safely.In the end it really doesnt take long to run a bunch of white pine through this way. The cherry on the right was run through as well. The drawer stock is prepped to thickness. After this comes smoothing the saw marks away, sizing it to dimension, and more dovetails.The stock that was resawn to 1/4" was smoothed, sized, and set into the stopped dados of the spice chest cabinet.Putting together the drawers would have to wait for another day. Before I moved forward I had to answer the design questions that had bothered me since the first rough drawings made an appearance in my sketch book. The base.
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
More later,VW
Nobodys Apprentice
Nobodys apprentice. Its a name Ive called myself for a while. I have never taken a real woodworking class in my life. No shop classes in high school, no woodworking or tool related vocational training after high school. Heck, money and time have always been in slight supply when it comes to traveling to take a woodworking class, or even attend an event like WIA. So not a whole lot of in-person instruction.
What I have had is a voracious appetite for woodworking books, magazines, some videos and, of course, the outstanding world of woodworking bloggers and podcasters. Thanks to this blog I also get lots of help, often via email, from guys who have been there and know better. They see me do something wrong, make a mistake or have poor technique doing something and they feel confident enough to offer advice. I really appreciate when that happens because it means a couple things, 1: they care enough about the craft that they want to see it done well and done right. and 2: they are reading my work, and care enough to offer advice that will help me enjoy and perform better in the craft.
Really, I couldnt be more wrong when I call myself "nobodys apprentice" because, in the best way possible, I could almost call myself "everyones apprentice." I pray all my teachers out there consider me more of a Thomas than a Sam.
What I have had is a voracious appetite for woodworking books, magazines, some videos and, of course, the outstanding world of woodworking bloggers and podcasters. Thanks to this blog I also get lots of help, often via email, from guys who have been there and know better. They see me do something wrong, make a mistake or have poor technique doing something and they feel confident enough to offer advice. I really appreciate when that happens because it means a couple things, 1: they care enough about the craft that they want to see it done well and done right. and 2: they are reading my work, and care enough to offer advice that will help me enjoy and perform better in the craft.
But like all apprentices, I would like to grow up eventually.
Early on in my sawdust years, back when power was king, I read somewhere that in order for an apprentice to make the jump to journeyman they must pass the test of building their own tool chest. I know enough now to feel that this particular statement of fact is suspect. We know from "The Joiner and Cabinetmaker" that the apprentice Thomas had already started buying his own tools very early on, starting with a folding rule. I would assume that in a shop with multiple joiners, that apprentices would want to secure their tools somewhere safe as well.
I wasnt ready then and I knew it. Theres no guarantee Im ready now, but Im going for it.
I have been dwelling on the idea of a tool chest for a long time. I had collected a sizable folder of photos copied from eBay auctions and other sites, to use as reference as I tried to figure out how I wanted my tool chest to look and work.
Then last summer my Father In Law gave me a tremendous gift. The tool chest brought over from Norway as they immigrated to America. It was packed full of cacophony of old tools. I recorded the whole experience under the heading Old World Tool Chest. But the result of that experience was that I had an old traditional tool chest, but it was in some seriously rough shape. I decided that the right thing to do would be to build a new version of the chest
Then, this past summer, Chris Schwarz published what I thought was a great book. The Anarchists Tool Chest. Since I had my mind turning my way towards a tool chest it almost seemed written for me. It answered the questions I had about this build in such a convincing fashion. I decided it was the direction I had to go.
Ive spent a lot of time and effort the last two three years focused on my shop. Ive built other pieces as well but since the summer of 2009 Ive built two workbenches, a full sized one and a smaller joinery bench, a pair of saw benches, a saw till, a storage shelf for my planes. Ive focused on making some tools and getting my hands on some others. Ive focused on bringing myself from a shop where I spent the day with ear plugs stuffed in my ears to protect me from the the whine of electron driven steel and carbide blades to a shop where I can hear "A Prairie Home Companion" or an NFL game play on the radio while I play in the sawdust.
Im not making promises, but I think this may be mostly it for shop projects, at least for a long while. Im not saying a small one might not sneak in from time to time, but once I complete this chest, Ive managed to fit all the major components into place. It will be time to stop building my shop, and start building furniture. In many ways I believe I saved the best for last.
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There was once a master thief whose skill was renown across the land. One day the thiefs eldest son came to him and begged his father to teach him the secrets of his success. The father relented to the sons pressure and agreed to take him that evening. As night fell they approached a large house and together and made their way inside. The son dutifully studied his fathers every move, shadowing his steps and mimicking his hands.
Under the ears of the sleeping family the pair moved through the house, Father directing son as they collected specific items of value. Quietly they opened the door into a bedroom and found it empty except for a large closet packed so full of the well-to-do families clothes that the door sat ajar. The father told the son to go and pick through the clothes for something of value and he would return in a moment.
As the son stepped towards the closet, the father shoved him inside and locked the door. Then he made his way outside and loudly knocked on the front door, shouting and ringing the bell to wake up the family inside. When he saw lights start to appear inside the house he quickly slipped away before anyone saw him, and went home.
Hours later he was relaxing in his favorite chair when the front door banged open. In came his son, hs clothes torn in places, dirt smeared across his forehead, and dark circles under his eyes. He was still catching his ragged breath as he started to raise his voice at his father and master.
"Why did you lock me in that closet?" he hollered, "I was scared to death and I was sure Id be caught!. It took all of my imagination and abilities to get out!"
The old master sat up in his chair and smiled, "My boy, youve just had your first lesson in the trade of thievery."
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Trying to spend more time with my daughters in the shop. My woodworking resolution for this year.
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Early on in my sawdust years, back when power was king, I read somewhere that in order for an apprentice to make the jump to journeyman they must pass the test of building their own tool chest. I know enough now to feel that this particular statement of fact is suspect. We know from "The Joiner and Cabinetmaker" that the apprentice Thomas had already started buying his own tools very early on, starting with a folding rule. I would assume that in a shop with multiple joiners, that apprentices would want to secure their tools somewhere safe as well.
I wasnt ready then and I knew it. Theres no guarantee Im ready now, but Im going for it.
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| 60 board feet of 5/4 rough cut poplar, 18 board feet of rough cut 6/4 hickory, and 12 board feet of 4/4 cherry take up a decent amount of room in the back of the mini van. The poplar and some of the hickory are tagged for the chest. The cherry is for some future projects. |
Then last summer my Father In Law gave me a tremendous gift. The tool chest brought over from Norway as they immigrated to America. It was packed full of cacophony of old tools. I recorded the whole experience under the heading Old World Tool Chest. But the result of that experience was that I had an old traditional tool chest, but it was in some seriously rough shape. I decided that the right thing to do would be to build a new version of the chestThen, this past summer, Chris Schwarz published what I thought was a great book. The Anarchists Tool Chest. Since I had my mind turning my way towards a tool chest it almost seemed written for me. It answered the questions I had about this build in such a convincing fashion. I decided it was the direction I had to go. |
| Re-reading the sections on the sizing of traditional chests, trying to make up my mind on the lengths and widths I need to achieve the goals I had set forth for this chest |
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| Dimensions decided upon, I start to move forward with breaking the stock down to size. |
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| All four sides of the chest, cut, set, and ready for the process to begin. |
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The First Lessons are The Most Difficult
There was once a master thief whose skill was renown across the land. One day the thiefs eldest son came to him and begged his father to teach him the secrets of his success. The father relented to the sons pressure and agreed to take him that evening. As night fell they approached a large house and together and made their way inside. The son dutifully studied his fathers every move, shadowing his steps and mimicking his hands.Under the ears of the sleeping family the pair moved through the house, Father directing son as they collected specific items of value. Quietly they opened the door into a bedroom and found it empty except for a large closet packed so full of the well-to-do families clothes that the door sat ajar. The father told the son to go and pick through the clothes for something of value and he would return in a moment.
As the son stepped towards the closet, the father shoved him inside and locked the door. Then he made his way outside and loudly knocked on the front door, shouting and ringing the bell to wake up the family inside. When he saw lights start to appear inside the house he quickly slipped away before anyone saw him, and went home.
Hours later he was relaxing in his favorite chair when the front door banged open. In came his son, hs clothes torn in places, dirt smeared across his forehead, and dark circles under his eyes. He was still catching his ragged breath as he started to raise his voice at his father and master.
"Why did you lock me in that closet?" he hollered, "I was scared to death and I was sure Id be caught!. It took all of my imagination and abilities to get out!"
The old master sat up in his chair and smiled, "My boy, youve just had your first lesson in the trade of thievery."
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Trying to spend more time with my daughters in the shop. My woodworking resolution for this year.
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Oldwolf
To Be Thomas or To Be Sam
It is just about to be my oldest daughters 16th birthday and she is growing into an amazing young woman. For this birthday I had planned to build her a chest. My wifes parents all gave their girls (four of them) hope chests when they hit their teen years as a place to collect the things they would eventually need when they moved out and started lives of their own. My intention was to build her a carved, 17th century joined chest, but life is great at complicating itself and our housing situation is still up in the air. It didnt seem fair to give her a birthday present I would have to put right into storage.
So I cast around for a few days for an idea or two and eventually fixed on the right thing. She does a lot of sewing, making stuffed monsters and puppets of all kinds and she brought some of her sewing stuff with to our temporary living arrangements. I spied her sewing stash the other day, sitting in a neat pile by the dinning room table, and I realized I could build her something that would both help her store her kit and be something flexible that could last her whole life.
I thought of the school box from the book "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" from Chris Schwarz at Lost Art Press. A few seconds later I thought of the stash of curly red oak I picked up a short while ago. I wanted to use that special stuff for projects for my wife and girls anyway and there isnt enough for four big projects. Four smaller projects will be good As long as I can get things done right and not screw them up completely. Starting with this one.
The boards are pretty rough and took a bit of clean up. I sorted through the stock to find one that was just wide enough for the sides of the box.
Then I set about marking and breaking down the sides.
I planed the boards flat and sized them identical. As I made the final wispy sweep of the smoothing plane I marveled at the figure I had exposed. I have never worked with stock like this before. I have always gone for straight grained, workman like stock. This curly red oak is a bit of a diva to work with. Demanding, exacting, and a little unforgiving, but sharp steel conquers all.
Once planed down smooth the stock was thicker than I would have picked. It weighs in at just under an inch thick. I dont have the means to resaw a board wider than six inches, and I didnt like the idea of ripping the boards, just to resaw them and reglue them or plane them down to a thinner nutrisystem version and leave a ton of that highly figured and beautiful wood on the shop floor.
There was no real debate over the decision. The box is built from thick and sturdy stock that will ensure it holds up to years of use and abuse.
Dovetailing the box is another assurance of its longevity. Bombproof construction for a lifetime and then some.
I took the chance to put my new Knew Concepts fretsaw to work. Theres not a much better test than inch thick red oak. The saw worked well, Im going to try a couple other different blades and uses before I pass judgment on whether I prefer it over my old coping saw.
I like to change up the sizes of my dovetails in a project like this. Aesthetically I like a little chunkier dovetail and if you space those out evenly they can easily be mistaken for the template and router cut variety. I space them out both to make it visually interesting and to set my joinery apart. The other day someone asked me why I bother to cut them by hand. My answer was simple, because I like to and because I can. What other reason do you need.
As the box started to come together I got the pleasure of watching the joinery come out tight and the grain and figure of the wood wrap itself around the box. I couldnt help but smile.
In "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" there are two characters. There is Thomas, the good apprentice who works hard and is able to turn out good work, and then theres Sam. Hes the "bad" apprentice who leaves his tools dull and scattered about and turns in shotty work. I can relate to both of these guys on any given day, though I try very hard to be more Thomas than Sam.
So far on this box my inner Thomas seems to be winning out, and that feels good, but I have to keep vigilant, a few minutes of the careless Sam can ruin a project.
Just say no to Sam.
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So I cast around for a few days for an idea or two and eventually fixed on the right thing. She does a lot of sewing, making stuffed monsters and puppets of all kinds and she brought some of her sewing stuff with to our temporary living arrangements. I spied her sewing stash the other day, sitting in a neat pile by the dinning room table, and I realized I could build her something that would both help her store her kit and be something flexible that could last her whole life.
I thought of the school box from the book "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" from Chris Schwarz at Lost Art Press. A few seconds later I thought of the stash of curly red oak I picked up a short while ago. I wanted to use that special stuff for projects for my wife and girls anyway and there isnt enough for four big projects. Four smaller projects will be good As long as I can get things done right and not screw them up completely. Starting with this one.
The boards are pretty rough and took a bit of clean up. I sorted through the stock to find one that was just wide enough for the sides of the box.Then I set about marking and breaking down the sides.I planed the boards flat and sized them identical. As I made the final wispy sweep of the smoothing plane I marveled at the figure I had exposed. I have never worked with stock like this before. I have always gone for straight grained, workman like stock. This curly red oak is a bit of a diva to work with. Demanding, exacting, and a little unforgiving, but sharp steel conquers all.Once planed down smooth the stock was thicker than I would have picked. It weighs in at just under an inch thick. I dont have the means to resaw a board wider than six inches, and I didnt like the idea of ripping the boards, just to resaw them and reglue them or plane them down to a thinner nutrisystem version and leave a ton of that highly figured and beautiful wood on the shop floor.There was no real debate over the decision. The box is built from thick and sturdy stock that will ensure it holds up to years of use and abuse.
Dovetailing the box is another assurance of its longevity. Bombproof construction for a lifetime and then some.I took the chance to put my new Knew Concepts fretsaw to work. Theres not a much better test than inch thick red oak. The saw worked well, Im going to try a couple other different blades and uses before I pass judgment on whether I prefer it over my old coping saw.I like to change up the sizes of my dovetails in a project like this. Aesthetically I like a little chunkier dovetail and if you space those out evenly they can easily be mistaken for the template and router cut variety. I space them out both to make it visually interesting and to set my joinery apart. The other day someone asked me why I bother to cut them by hand. My answer was simple, because I like to and because I can. What other reason do you need.As the box started to come together I got the pleasure of watching the joinery come out tight and the grain and figure of the wood wrap itself around the box. I couldnt help but smile.In "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" there are two characters. There is Thomas, the good apprentice who works hard and is able to turn out good work, and then theres Sam. Hes the "bad" apprentice who leaves his tools dull and scattered about and turns in shotty work. I can relate to both of these guys on any given day, though I try very hard to be more Thomas than Sam.So far on this box my inner Thomas seems to be winning out, and that feels good, but I have to keep vigilant, a few minutes of the careless Sam can ruin a project.
Just say no to Sam.
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf