Project Information
Wood And Materials Used
cherry, maple, oak, walnut, exotic wood scraps
Tools Used
dovetail jig, table saw, misc. other shop tools, Arm-R-Seal
Location
IA (a.k.a. Heaven)
I've had the Viking Nova drill press for a while now and it needed a permanent home. The project started where most of my projects do, on SketchUp.
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Part way thru making the SketchUp model I realized I needed to dig thru the various scraps and shorts to see what was usable for the project. I found several 6/4 pieces of cherry for the legs. Some short pieces of walnut would work for the stretchers, a left over piece of 8/4 white oak would make the top. I also had enough 3/4 oak to make drawer boxes. Back to SketchUp to work out the final dimensions (16x20x28). I didn't finish the SketchUp design by since I didn't quite know what I wanted to do for the drawers and front.
The legs are made of 2 pieces held together with a 1/4" mortise and a loose tenon that runs the length of the legs. Side and back panels are 1/2" cherry plywood panels with walnut stretchers. The stretcher mortises for the cherry panels were cut at the same time as the legs.
The side panels and side leg pieces were glued up as one assembly. The back leg pieces and panel was glued up as an assembly. Using a dado stack on the able saw, slots were cut into the pieces to hold the top and bottom panels. I also pre-finshed all of the interior faces since there wasn't going to be a lot of room to do it after final assembly.
Before the assemblies were glued together, drawer slides (75 lb full extension side slides) for 3 drawers were also installed.
Complete cabinet carcass:
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Side note - the wheels were taken off right after I installed them. Engaging the wheels resulted in a very top heavy, unstable situation where the drill press leaned to the side like the leaning tower of Pisa. Since I didn't want it to tip over I went with a mobile base.
In keeping with the theme of over-building shop items, the drawers are dovetailed, 3/4" oak.
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Of course the front had to be A&C style to go with the work bench.
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Part way thru making the SketchUp model I realized I needed to dig thru the various scraps and shorts to see what was usable for the project. I found several 6/4 pieces of cherry for the legs. Some short pieces of walnut would work for the stretchers, a left over piece of 8/4 white oak would make the top. I also had enough 3/4 oak to make drawer boxes. Back to SketchUp to work out the final dimensions (16x20x28). I didn't finish the SketchUp design by since I didn't quite know what I wanted to do for the drawers and front.
The legs are made of 2 pieces held together with a 1/4" mortise and a loose tenon that runs the length of the legs. Side and back panels are 1/2" cherry plywood panels with walnut stretchers. The stretcher mortises for the cherry panels were cut at the same time as the legs.
The side panels and side leg pieces were glued up as one assembly. The back leg pieces and panel was glued up as an assembly. Using a dado stack on the able saw, slots were cut into the pieces to hold the top and bottom panels. I also pre-finshed all of the interior faces since there wasn't going to be a lot of room to do it after final assembly.
Before the assemblies were glued together, drawer slides (75 lb full extension side slides) for 3 drawers were also installed.
Complete cabinet carcass:
Side note - the wheels were taken off right after I installed them. Engaging the wheels resulted in a very top heavy, unstable situation where the drill press leaned to the side like the leaning tower of Pisa. Since I didn't want it to tip over I went with a mobile base.
In keeping with the theme of over-building shop items, the drawers are dovetailed, 3/4" oak.
Of course the front had to be A&C style to go with the work bench.
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