With
the carcase completed, it is time to turn to the internal dividers
for the drawers.
I took the time first to plane the rebate for
the rear panel. Knowing my spatial weakness of getting parts
back-to-front and upside-down, I marked these when the carcase was a
dry fit (and later briefly thought I had screwed this up!)
...
One
of the benefits of mitred corners is that the rebate can be planed
across without fear of it showing ...
The
rebate is 6mm deep as the rear panel will be 5mm thick to bend it
around the curved rear. The carcase is 20mm thick, and the rebate
extends halfway into this.
I was curious to see how rebating
on a curve would turn out. No problem ...
Here
is the rear of the carcase with the rebate ...
Moving
to the stopped dados/housings ... the centre panel is solid rather
than a frame. I decided that this would be less work, plus there will
be a series of stopped dados to be made. The panel is 10mm thick.
This was made first, that is, the dados were sized to fit the panel
thickness.
I made up a couple of templates. One was the
height of the dado, and the other was the height of the dado plus the
width of the dado. The inside of the carcase is marked on both sides
using the same templates to ensure that they are exactly the same
height from the base.
The
lines are deepened with a knife, and then a chisel wall is created to
register a saw cut ...
The
end of the stopped dado is defined ...
A
Japanese azebiki was used along a guide to ensure it cut on the
vertical ...
Now
that the sides are defined by the kerf, this could be deepened with a
chisel (this is my current favourite chisel - a 1" Kiyohisa.
Sublime!) ..
The
waste is removed with a router plane ...
Check
that the side walls are square ...
Completed
side panels ...
I
was so confident that the dados were perfect that I dry fitted the
carcase once more ... and then found that one dado was a smidgeon too
tight for the test piece. It turned out that a small section of a
side wall was not as square as I thought (probably the saw did not
cut deeply enough at that spot). The best too to clear this is a side
rebate plane. Set for a very light cut to clear the waste, not the
dado width ...
Perfect
fit this time ...
Time
to fit the centre panel. This has been shaped to size, but will need
a little fine tuning at a later time. Note that the rear section is
secondary wood (Merbau) ...
I
had just enough time to slide the panel in. Nice tight fit. Not
enough time to saw the rebates for the stopped dados. This will be
done next time ...
Regards
from Perth
Derek
June 2019