Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process

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First a bit of serendipity, then I'll come on to what I've been doing this morning.

I thought I'd do a bit of playing with some of the offcuts from the walnut drawer runners. I got a bit of scrap sweet chestnut and ploughed a rebate into one corner. I then screwed a small piece of walnut into the end:

The wood strips turned out to be 9 mm thick. Making a 3 mm wide groove in the middle of the strips thus means making a groove 3 mm from the edge. A year or two ago I made a simple set of grooving planes and one pair of those were designed to make a groove 3 mm deep, 3 mm wide and 3 mm from the bottom of a box. That worked perfectly for these pieces, so will save the faff of setting up a combination plane:

I've only used it in an offcut at the moment as I'm still pondering on the somewhat daunting assembly implications of doing this, but it's nice to know that the groove making will at least be straightforward.

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