Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process
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Posted 12th February 2023
The top panel came out of its clamps this morning. I'd been too lazy to take it out of the clamps after 3 hours (as I had with the previous ones), so the underside squeeze-out needed a bit more effort to shift, but it didn't take long and the board cleaned up nicely:
The scarfed piece also came out of its clamps:
It looks okay from that angle, but unfortunately there's a bit of a bow in it:
I thought it's be interesting to bring the extra bit down to the same dimensions as the original bit to see what it looked like. It cleaned up quite nicely:
The joint is obvious (but then, this piece was going to be part of the underside of a tool chest, so I don't think that matters). However, it's obviously warped as well as a little bowed as it doesn't sit flat on the bench. Getting rid of that warp would result in a bit of wood that was much thinner than the other pieces, so I decided to write it down to experience and start again. I think if I was doing this again, I'd do the scarf joint before dimensioning the timber so I had some room for manoeuvre after scarfing.
I'll probably do some more scarfs on some scrap wood for practice as I clearly haven't got the knack yet!
It didn't take me long to make up a new middle piece out of the stock I had lying around – the middle plank in this photo is the new one:
That's now glued and clamped together. I used a silicon brush to apply the glue this time and it worked much better than the spatula.
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