Bottom goes on next. I still can't decide between Cypress or Baltic Birch ply. Top Skirt and a lid to go, both should be reasonably quick because neither will require much butt scratching. The next three days I'm working a mid day shift and not much gets done either before or after work on that schedule. If the current work schedule holds and I get a couple or three days off in a row following the next three it will not be long before I finish this sucker.
Rob Porcaro over at Heartwood pointed me to something that could be useful. I expect a Plano glue press is in my furture. A Plano glue press would have helped on this glue up and I expect the panels would have been at least 3 or 4 mil thicker if I had used one.
A couple of photos, you can't tell but under those clamps is a skirt attached to the bottom of a tool box:
Another view:
ken
Go with solid wood on the bottom. You don't have the moisture problems out there that I deal with here.
ReplyDeleteComing along nicely, can't wait to see it kitted out.
ReplyDeleteAnother five or so single malt and it should be completed :-)
Bob
I really like that skirting material, and the way the dovetails look in the opposite direction as the case DTs. Sounds like a bit of "pooky" could help some of my projects.
ReplyDeleteRalph,
ReplyDeleteI think there is enough Cypress left without a woodstore trip for the bottom, if not I've some White Oak. I'll get the upper skirt (Red Oak just because it was handy on top of the wood pile) and top finished then make up my feeble mind.
ken
Thanks Bob, what's amazing is I've found a spot to put it in the shop that is easy access from the work bench (right behind, next to the tool cabinet and below the plane till) and it will only require moving a couple of chisel racks. Almost as if I'd planed it.
ReplyDeleteken
Thanks Matt,
ReplyDeleteAs I have often stated "No project is finished until the sixth trip to Home Depot" and that trip is usually for a new supply of that day's pooky :-).
ken