November 26, 201510 yr Finally got to go to the shop, again. Planes have been rehabbed and shipped out, van is now fixed up. I can rip a few boards of walnut 5/4 stuff. needed three pieces. One will be the second long apron, the other two will be long stretchers under the bottom shelf. Ran into a problem, though. The foot part of the legs is too small... Which meant I had to cut the leg back about a 1/4" or some, just to get a flat area for the stretcher to land on. Which mad a change in tenon length, too. Needed to find out how long a tenon I could get by with.. Clamped a leg into the vise. planed the flat after the bandsaw had cut the waste off. Since two legs have the mortise for the apron chopped, I got the apron out and the other leg. A pipe clamp to almost hold things together. Yeah. Then i used a c clamp to hold a strecher close to where it will go, about evenly spaced between the two. Gave me a tenon length like this... pencil to mark a spot. Used a square to "carry" the line around. Marked both stretchers. laid out the toy list items...Backsaw, chisel, square, mallet. and started cutting tenons wasn't too hard, backsaw to the line, go 1/3 the way through, by eye. Chisel and a whack of the mallet to pop the waste off. chisel to pare flat, rotate and repeat. There was one that wanted to be a problem...as I was doing the long apron board.. yep, big old nasty KNOT. Well, I sawed down the usual 1/3 of the way. Chisel did NOT want to pop the waste off...hmm...Old School Way! I stood the board on it's end in the vise, and sawed off the waste. pared it a bit and laid the board back down. And finished it up. While doing the LAST tenon of the night's work (of course) I tried out a wooden plane as a shoulder plane. It has been a bit tricky to set, but I FINALLY got it to work... Figures. Well, stacked all all the parts back onto the bench, as it will be a few before I get down there again. Got a few short ones to tenon, and a bunch of mortises to chop. maybe by Sunday I can grab a bottle of Elmer's? Oh, BTW, I also got the bottom shelf out of the clamps, and planed smooth. Stay tuned....
November 26, 201510 yr Steve, Looks like we both get our wood from the same place. It requires a bit more work, but the price is right.
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