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In the ongoing quest to get some of my bench top back for actual woodworking, next up was a chisel till. His started as a cheap ($7 from the bargain bin) scrap of birch, 3/4×6 x 24, which I resawed, ripped, and crosscut so I had 3/8×3 pieces. The finished till is roughly 15×18, so I have some small scraps left. The back is a piece of Baltic birch ply, 1/4" thick. Holes in the shelf are 9/16 and 12/16, spaced on 1 inch centers for the small ones, and 1.5 inch centers for the big ones. Then I cut down to the holes using my 1:4 dovetail gauge to lay out the angles.
I planed the outside surfaces smooth, but left the inside somewhat scalloped from the traversing with the jack plane. It doesn't need to be super smooth, and I wanted to get it finished.
On the dovetails, I tried tiny pins. Don't much like the look of them, but I guess fat pins would've looked kinda weird in the thin stock, too. The narrow end between tails is big enough to fit my dovetail saw through, and that's it. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
The case got non-square (almost 1/4"difference between the two diagonals, on a total of 22") on me when I glued it up and glued the back on. I can see it, but most other people don't notice, so I guess I'm a perfectionist. And I should use corner clamps to keep things square, especially on thin stock like this.
Finish is a coat of BLO, blonde shellac, then orange shellac, then another blonde shellac. I should've made the shelf a full 3/4 thick, as I broke three of the "fingers" between the holes along the way. Just glued them back together for now. I'll glue on small wooden cross-grain splints if I break any more. But the chisels are now out of the way.
I planed the outside surfaces smooth, but left the inside somewhat scalloped from the traversing with the jack plane. It doesn't need to be super smooth, and I wanted to get it finished.
On the dovetails, I tried tiny pins. Don't much like the look of them, but I guess fat pins would've looked kinda weird in the thin stock, too. The narrow end between tails is big enough to fit my dovetail saw through, and that's it. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
The case got non-square (almost 1/4"difference between the two diagonals, on a total of 22") on me when I glued it up and glued the back on. I can see it, but most other people don't notice, so I guess I'm a perfectionist. And I should use corner clamps to keep things square, especially on thin stock like this.
Finish is a coat of BLO, blonde shellac, then orange shellac, then another blonde shellac. I should've made the shelf a full 3/4 thick, as I broke three of the "fingers" between the holes along the way. Just glued them back together for now. I'll glue on small wooden cross-grain splints if I break any more. But the chisels are now out of the way.
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