14 hours ago, John Morris said:

No?

Did I confuse you?  I was asking if you changed your profile picture to that of Lurch. 

18 minutes ago, PostalTom said:

Did I confuse you?  I was asking if you changed your profile picture to that of Lurch. 

Yes I got confused!  It's easily done Tom!

41 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Yes I got confused!  It's easily done Tom!

Join the crowd, John. Believe me, it gets worser with each passing day.

Excellent work on that cabinet.  That thing is looking great!

Edited April 10, 20215 yr by Thad

Last weekend I was able to get a little bit of work done on the doors, I worked on the panels. My wife did another design change and decided she didn't want raised panel doors, she wanted flat panel inserts, so I re-sawed the boards in half with my Shopsmith table saw as far as I could, then I finished the re-saw with a hand saw. As you can see it was just a tiny bit, I was able to separate the halves in a few seconds.

This is a great method if you want to re-saw wide boards, you can do the majority of the sawing on your table saw, and finish up with your hand saw.

 

 

I planed the boards down to a hair over 1/4" with my DeWalt 740, or is it a 720? I can't remember. The grooves I cut into the rail and stiles are exactly 1/4", so I used my little block plane and snuck up on the edges for a perfect fit.

 

 

I used a rail for the test fit as I planed, I slid the rail along the edge of the panel as I went. 

 

 

And I came up with my first door, just have to glue it up and cut the tails off.

 

 

 

Hopefully I'll get out to the shop this weekend to get the doors cleaned up, and ready to hang.

Looks mighty good there John.

3 hours ago, Cal said:

Looks mighty good there John.

Hey thanks Cal! I most certainly don't break any speed records, but slowly and surely, it gets done!

Looking great John. I'll never develop the skills you have when it comes to woodworking. Was never able to develop the patience needed. Especially when changes are requested during the building process. Waiting to see the finished product.

6 hours ago, John Morris said:

I most certainly don't break any speed records, but slowly and surely, it gets done!

 

 

One step at a time, Rome was not built in a day.  

4 hours ago, Al B said:

I'll never develop the skills you have when it comes to woodworking.

I've seen your work Al, surely you jest!

Nope, I really mean it! I've never taken the time to learn how to use a hand plane properly. My attempts with mortise and tenon joinery have left a lot to be desired. Never been satisfied with my ability to sharpen chisels. And I could go on. I figure that what I build will last 50 years. Your work will last 100's of years. Probably why I've spent a lot of time making bandsaw boxes.No joinery to concern myself with.

3 hours ago, Al B said:

Nope, I really mean it! I've never taken the time to learn how to use a hand plane properly. My attempts with mortise and tenon joinery have left a lot to be desired. Never been satisfied with my ability to sharpen chisels. And I could go on. I figure that what I build will last 50 years. Your work will last 100's of years. Probably why I've spent a lot of time making bandsaw boxes.No joinery to concern myself with.

BEAUTIFUL Bandsaw Boxes!

Beautiful work, @John Morris!

12 hours ago, Artie said:

BEAUTIFUL Bandsaw Boxes!

Amen to that!

3 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Beautiful work, @John Morris!

Why thank you sir 

Yeah, what they all said!

3 hours ago, PostalTom said:

Yeah, what they all said!

Thank you Tom.

 

I got a little time in the ol shop yesterday to continue working on this marathon project. Life has thrown many curve balls our way this past year that I have had a hard time getting back to the fun things that are awaiting in my shop.

Yesterday I tuned up the doors for this cabinet, since they were sitting for so long, we had a very humid summer which is rare in my area so the doors twisted just a tad and adjustments had to be made. After hanging the doors they did not line up with each other at the top or bottom of the frame. So here is how I fixed it.

 

By feel I flushed the top stile corner of the door with the upper rail face frame.

 

 

Then I observed the lower corner stile protruding beyond the lower face frame. It could have gone either way, the bottom may have fit right and the top protruded, which ever corner protrudes is the corner that needs to be worked on.

 

 

While the door was in place I scribed a pencil line against the face frame at the underside of the protuding door. Then I removed the door from the hinges and secured it to the bench. You can see where the door starts coming out of line, from zero to about an eighth of an inch.

 

By the way, the grooves for the panels and tenons were created by my Stanley 45, not bad right!

 

 

I planed a chamfer to the scribed line, this serves two purposes.

1. Since I'm planing across the rail and into the cross grain of the stile, this prevents unsightly tear out at the scribed line.
2. I don't have to stop and check the line as much, I simply plane down till the chamfer disappears and I know I am done.

 

I planed till the chamfer disappeared and then tested the fit.

 

 

The top flushed up on the face frame as before.

 

 

And now the bottom corner is flush as well.

The door bottom does taper a tad, but it is unseen by the casual observer.

 

 

All four doors had this issue, and it so happened the issues landed at the bottom of each door which is interesting, but not surprising since at the beginning of the project I had to lay out grain orientation the same for every panel out of good practice, and the same grain direction for every door because I planed the panel grooves into each stile with a Stanley 45, and my method at the bench was to insert each stile into the vise at the same direction, because I was planing the same direction for every board. So even issues and "fixes" can become uniform by default since using hand tools requires more attention to grain orientation for ease of processing.

 

Thanks for following!

 

I'd say it worked out fine, and yes...that work with the 45 would make Newman proud.

Edited October 24, 20214 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

That was a great save John, thanks for the illustrated tutorial.