My morning routine was all screwed this today. I get to work an hour early so I can read up and absorb all the woodworking knowledge I read on the blogs. The main one I read is 'Unplugged Shop' but this morning it was off line. Yikes!. It didn't come back online till lunch - it may have come back earlier but that was the first time I could check it.. This has happened before but not for this long. I hope it isn't the bad guys trying to infiltrate the site.
I have the book (reprint) 'Cabinet Construction' written by J.C.S. Brough in 1930. I've been looking through it to see if what I'm calling the back apron is in it. There are several drawings in the book that show a similar 'back apron' but he doesn't put a name to it. He spends a whole chapter on how to make them but I can't find a name for it anywhere. I'll keep looking through my books to see if I can find anything.
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| flushing the ends of the apron and top |
There isn't that much to do on the main carcass in order to call it done. The first batter was flushing the top and the back apron. This small low angle block plane has become one of my favorite planes. It worked well here on the the end grain of both pieces and I got no tear out at all.
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| miller dowels batted second |
I put one dowel one inch in from the front and back of the sides. The middle one is equidistant between them. The blue tape will make the clean up very easy. The two biggies - glue and pencil marks - should all come up when I remove the tape.
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| too big for hide glue and sawdust |
I think this gap is too wide for my homemade putty. I think a wedge of solid wood will blend in better and be less noticeable then putty will.
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| the bottom through tenon |
The crack on the left I will use putty on but the right one will get a wedge.
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| right side top through tenon |
The chips missing on the lower left are too deep to plane out. I think I may sand and feather those out. The right side gap will get a wedge too.
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| bottom through tenon |
This is the only tenon that came out close to perfect. The through tenon job I did on this bookcase is a huge improvement over my attempts at this just a few months ago. My practicing is staring to pay off.
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| sawed 4 small wedges |
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| dental pick |
The wedge wouldn't fit in the gap. I had to scrape out some of the hide glue to make room for it.
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| zero pressure on the wedge |
I barely tapped this wedge into the gap. I didn't in any way want to split the side now. I stopped as soon as I felt a little pressure on the wedge. I used hide glue on this too.
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| no wedges on top |
I tried to scrape the gap but I didn't have any success with that. Scraping hide glue is like scraping a rock. There is a small depression there and I'll try filling that with my homemade putty.
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| forgot about this |
I couldn't do anything more on the bookcase and I saw this as I was leaving the shop. I had left off with this after repainting a few bare spots. Before I put another coat of shellac on it, I rubbed the whole thing down with 4-0 steel wool.
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| more bare spots |
Made 3 spots on this end and there are 3 more on the top edge. I won't be applying shellac tonight neither. I painted all the bare spots I rubbed bare with the steel wool. Tomorrow I'll rub it again with the steel wool and put a coat of shellac on. By using shellac, I could get this done in time for xmas. The bookcase won't make it.
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| sunday night |
I'm watching the football game as I work on my blog for monday. I usually end up with both of the cats like this for company. The female is always trying to lay down on the computer and the male gets pissed at me if I lean back too far. I'm thinking of firing them as the editors of my blog because they never find any errors in my work.
accidental woodworker
trivia corner
How much water does a ten gallon hat hold?
answer - about 3 quarts (1/4 gallon)
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