Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process
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Posted 22nd April 2023
In the spirit of putting off the big scary glue-up for as long as I can, I thought I'd use my first free day since feeling properly better after covid to do some more stock preparation. I need quite a lot of thin-ish, preferably quarter-sawn, pieces of sweet chestnut to make the sides and backs of the drawers. This plank is destined to become those drawer pieces:
I started by chopping it into what I think are sections of the right lengths for the various drawer pieces:
The end bit had a big crack down the middle, so I just pulled it apart.
One side of the end bit had a crack at an awkward angle and my first thought was that the piece would just end up as firewood, but then it occurred to me that I might be able to get a couple of drawer sides out of it, so I put it back with the other bits:
The shorter pieces got marked up so that the side pieces (which are somewhere near quarter-sawn) can get used and the middle bit discarded:
After extensive use of my big Ryoba, I now have a big pile of bits:
This afternoon I'll start planing the faces of these. I think I'll plane each face until it's flat and twist-free, without worrying about the relationship between the two faces. I'll then resaw them twice on the bandsaw, with each face against the fence and hopefully that will give me two 8–10 mm thick pieces from each of the little planks.
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