Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process
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Posted 29th October 2023
Buoyed by the success (ish) of the butterfly Dutchmen, I thought I'd deal with a longer-standing issue:
If you look closely at the bottom-left of that picture, you might spot the issue. When I was originally planing the back of the chest back in May or thereabouts, I was working my way up the diagonal with the smoothing plane and the blade caught on the edge of one of the uprights and tore a chunk out. This sort of planing (where two pieces join at such an angle that planing along one grain is planing across another) is definitely not something I've mastered yet. A closer look:
It's hidden behind the vice jaw thing when that's fitted, but nevertheless it was going to bug me if I didn't do something about it.
Being on the flat back surface of the chest, access was quite easy with an 8 mm chisel and my beloved router plane. I was very cautious with the down-cuts with the chisel as there's nothing supporting the underside of the uprights, but it went very smoothly.
Clamping was a little more awkward on such a small piece; this was the best I could come up with:
I used fish glue so it needs a fairly long time to dry. I'm not sure how busy my evenings are going to be this week, but worst case I'll tidy it up next weekend.
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