15 drawer dresser pt III......
I think this is pt III but it doesn't really matter. Had a good day in the shop and made some progress on the dresser. Thinking ahead to buying plywood for the drawer bottoms and that is going to be expensive. 1/4 sheets have more than doubled in price and I doubt there will be any post xmas sales on it. Oh well, it is what it is.
On a brighter note I finally got through to Urology and I have an appointment on the 18th. I have my audiology appointment on the 18th too at 0930 and the urology at 1120. I hope that audiology is on time and it doesn't take a lot of time to do what they have to do.
detour |
Decided to whack out a quick frame. I shot all of them to same length and used the shortest one as the master to plane the other 3. I sawed them out on the tablesaw initially but the frame didn't fit.
Yikes |
I thought I had put all my 45 hiccups behind me but I guess it ain't so. This tells me that my angles aren't 45°. The miters were square to the face which was a big hiccup in the past for me. Mr Starrett said that the angles were 45°. I checked the 45s again and they still looked good.
2nd shooting |
I shot all the miters again and it was still off. I shot them again making the sure the inside lengths were all the same.
parallel now |
The widths of each leg were slightly off a few frog hairs. I ran them through the tablesaw again and shot the miters one more time. The frame closed up some but there was still a gap on the last two miters.
off 90° |
The miters were 45 according to Mr Starrett but the 90 on each of the four corners was OTL (out to lunch). This tells me that the toes need to shaved. It seems that I was forcing the combo square to read 45° - the frame is soft pine and I was forcing the combo square to read a 45 that wasn't 45. When I did it slow and easy I saw then it was off 45 by a couple of frog hairs.
tricky part |
Trying to correct the miter to close it up is something that I don't do good on. I usually have a problem figuring out if the toe or heel needs to move in or out. Then I have to set the 45 on the shooting board to open or close the miter. I got lucky this time and I picked the right way to change the 45 on the shooting board.
dead on 90 |
It took three adjustments before I got 90 on the two miters.
oh so close |
This dry fit is a huge improvement over the first one. It looks pretty good but one corner isn't closing up 100% but only at about 99%.
closed up |
third one from the top |
I don't know if this leg was one of the legs with the heels off but it is proud of the other three. It is enough to cause the frame to be misaligned ever so slightly. I spent enough time and calories on this and set it aside to work on the dresser.
tools of the trade |
I can't count. I thought I had 18 dadoes to chop but I have 20 of them. Because I had so many of these to do I sawed the walls of the dado. That saved me a lot of wear and tear on my wrists. I sawed all the walls on the left first and then I did the right ones.
bit me on the arse again |
This square is a PITA at times. It is so easy to bump/move it off 90 and not notice it. That is what happened on this last dado. I had already started to saw it out when I saw that it wasn't square.
fixed |
I was lucky that the out square boo boo was at the back and not the front. If it had been at the front this would probably be a 13 drawer chest. This pic is out of sequence and it has both the rail and stile snug fitted into the dado. All will be well in Disneyland come glue up.
not pretty looking |
This should have been the pic before the one above. The back left part of the dado is where the error is. I was able to chop the 'new' dado wall to the right of it without that one crumbling on me. Not sure if I will fill in the errant wall or not. Who is going to look inside at the bottom drawer opening to eyeball this?
snug fitting dadoes |
Getting much better at chopping these dadoes. All ten of them came out the same. I will take a shaving off each them when it comes the time to glue the stiles in place.
ten little indians..... |
I still have more dadoes to chop besides the ten in the other side piece. Every other drawer bank will have a center vertical divider for the two drawer openings. Not sure if I need to also put a center vertical divider at the back. I will have to think about that for a few.
vertical divider |
I am also going to need drawer stops. Nothing more annoying then pulling a drawer out too far and dumping its contents on the deck.
accidental woodworker