Today was a very busy day in my day to day life so I didn't get too much accomplished in the shop, but I did make progress, just a little!!!
WHAT I DID TODAY
- Went to Woodcraft and availed myself of a great sale!!
- Inspected the painted panels
- Milled the parts that make up the legs of the divider
- Glued up the legs
WENT TO WOODCRAFT
I love going to this store as they have everything that I want as a woodworker but I would need to win the lottery to buy everything that I wanted. They did however have a sale on Japanese handsaws so I purchased 1 and got another one half off, I also got the Veritas flush trim saw which has been on my shopping list for a little time, but you can see some of the pictures I took below
The saw on the left and right are Japanese handsaws one of them has a blade stiffner and one without,These saws are on the espensive side but they cut like a hot knife through butter.
You can see the blades here. The Gyokucho Cross cut blade is on the right, dovetail Gyokucho is on the left and the Veritas flush trim saw is in the mddle,
The Japanese saw in action, this saw is so nice and every once in a while its nice to use hand tools to get the job done. I love the grip very comfortable on the hands.
INSPECTED THE PAINTED PANELS
The panels look awesome and the I can totally see the grain definition come though the paint which is unusual, but the panels are ready to receive the face frames tomorrow.
Can totally see the grain come through the paint, the pictures don't do it justice. Anyway it doesn't really matter because the herringbone pattern will be covering the majority of this panel
MILLING THE LEGS
Tonight I used some 2x wood to make the legs of the divider, but because my divider thickness is 2 1/4" thick I needed to prepare 2 pieces of wood to make up that thickness, so I used my tablesaw with a feather-board to keep the board aligned as I milled the lumber. I needed to make 6 pieces as I am going to be gluing up the 3 legs out these in the next step.
Here you can see me pushing the board through the blade using a feather-board to keep the lumber straight as it going through the blade
LEG GLUE-UP
I milled up 6 pieces of lumber
- 3 @ 1.5"x1.5"
- 3@ 1.5" x .75" which will give me my 2 1/4" thickness so as that I can attach them to the plywood and face frames, but first I need to glue up the 3 sets of legs and you can see the pictures below of the glue-up and the multitude of clamps lol
Here re the 6 boards getting ready to be glued up, if you are one that does a lot of glue-ups you should get this Glue-bot container which is what I use to apply glue especially on glue-ups like this one. I made the boards longer so as that I can cut them to final size when the glue sets.
Here is another angle of the glue-ups.. glad I made those extra saw horses.
Here are the boards all clamped together for the night, instead of clamping each individual leg I organized all the legs into one assembly . I just made sure that I orientated the board faces so as that the boards wouldnt be all glued together. I used a lot of clamps lol... its true what they say you can never have enough clapmps
Well that's it for today, tomorrow I will be cleaning up the legs and attaching the face frames to the plywood panels...……. until then have a great day