The
night stands have two drawers each. Last time we looked at the Tiny
Drawer. The main drawer will be bow-fronted.
This
post is about preparing the drawer parts - sawing them to size, and
the tools and process used. Tomorrow I will be dovetailing the parts
together to make the drawer, but I thought some here would be
interested in seeing the machines and planes used to create a
piston-fit drawer.
The usual way to rip boards to width is
with a table saw, against a rip fence. This one is a Hammer K3, and
the rip fence is augmented with the JessEm Clear Cut Stock Guides.
They do a fabulous job of forcing a board against the fence, and this
prevents any wandering.
But
another way to do this is to use a parallel guide on the slider. This
is a particularly safe way of sawing, and is a lot easier to set up.
Crosscutting
to square one end on the slider ...
...
and then cutting to size with the depth stop ...
The
machines do the coarse work, getting the boards close to size. The
fine fitting is done with hand planes.
A Stanley #52 shooting
board cleaning up the ends ..
Here
is a large shooting board planing the height of the drawer sides to
fit the case (it sits on the outfeed of the K3 today) ...
Removing
any machine marks and smoothing the faces ..
Labeled
and ready to go with the next stage ...
Tomorrow
...
Regards
from Perth
Derek
May 2023