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I'm reading a Fine Woodworking book on "Boxes, Carcases, and Drawers." It's just a collection of articles from the early days of FWW. One of them is by Tage Frid, one of the major authors of the day. He writes, "Furniture construction is broken into two main categories: frame and carcase. In frame construction, relatively narrow boards are joined -- usually with a mortise and tenon joint -- as in a chair or table base, or a frame and panel door. In carcase construction boards are joined end to end using dovetails, tongue and groove joints and the like, as in a drawer or hutch." Seems simple enough, huh?
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Got to start somewhere. Breaking down a couple of 4/4 x6 x8' Walnut planks. Cut a few down to match the raised panels I made a while back. Cleaned up the rough sawn edges a bit, and marked them for a rip cut. After a rip down the middle, these will go on the ends, to house them raised panels. Going to get these to a somewhat finished sized, and then smooth the faces up. Less to plane, that way. Tried to handsaw these boards down, ran out of breath ( COPD??) so an OLD Sears Craftsman Circular saw was used. It will also do all the rip cuts. Corner posts were straight edged up. Then set up for a rip down the middle. I'll then add a Tongue & groove joint to the edges of the corner posts.
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Well a start anyway. Got all but three planks ripped down to 1x4'' by maybe 5' long. Started to remove the T & G edges. Back at the old Pole Barn Shop, this was easy to do, just set up the table-saw and rip away. Now? Well, I guess we might be having a bit of a Barny Stanley #31 and a Corsair C-5 Scrub Jack and plane away. Lots of shavings to rest my tired feet on, too. Corsair runs along the tongue parts, until a wide shaving appears, the #31 takes over and joints the edges straight. Might be worth the trouble, if the boards all look like this when I'm done If the #31 gets to be a might big, we have others awaiting their turn All Stanleys. L-R: #31 , a #5-1/2, a #5, and a #5-1/4. Note the pile of shavings? I plan to have all the edges jointed straight, and then work over the faces. Hope these all turn out ok..
