ChetlovesMer Posted October 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Okay, Hour number 9: Is anybody still following this? Anyway, hour number 9 was from 1-2PM today. All I did was assemble the drawer boxes, Cut the drawer fronts to size, and I set up the table saw to make the rails and styles for the door. Here are the drawer boxes in the clamps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wouldwurker Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Chet. You're officially proving my theory that us enthusiasts are all certifiably manic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Crawford Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yes, I'm still following this but find it somewhat depressing - the speed with which you are able to build a project makes me feel like I'm as slow as a slug in the shop. Of course my wife thinks that I'm even slower than that on projects for her. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Hour number 10: Okay we've reach double digits in hours. The hours are really starting to add up now. Hour number 10 was from 10PM until 11PM last night. Since I had set up the table saw to make the rails and styles back in hour 9, it was a pretty easy task to knock out some rails and styles for the door. I did not use my dado blade for this, just a standard flat bottom blade, I flipped each piece to center the dado in the piece. I made the dado just under 1/4". I cut the tenons with the blade in exactly the same set up. Used a shop made jig (Okay it's a piece of plywood with a piece of maple glued to it) to make the tenons on the same set up. I love this method because you don't have to re-set-up your table saw. You make the dados in the rails and the styles, AND cut the tenons without touching the table saw set-up. It DOES require you to clean up the shoulders on the tenons with a shoulder plane. (IMO - The best shoulder plane in the world is the LV medium shoulder plane... sorry LN and Stanley.) Here's how far I got this hour. This is the door dry fit together and clamped so I could check square-ness (is that a word?) of the joinery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Hour number 10: Okay we've reach double digits in hours. The hours are really starting to add up now. OK, now you're just rubbing it in, aren't you? At hour 10, I'm just finishing up milling some stock! Nice work, Chet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 What kind of joints did you use on the drawer sides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Ken, The joint I used on the drawer sides is actually called a drawer joint. If you google image search for "drawer joint" you'll get many versions of it. Not sure when I learned it, I've been using it a long time. I know that page 27 of Woodsmith Magazine Vol. 34 / No. 202 has a little break out box at the bottom of the page all showing how to do it. But you can certainly find all kinds of information on the drawer joint all over the web. There's a picture of my dry fit of the joint shown in hour number 8. Also look here: http://www.woodsmithtips.com/2010/08/26/tongue-and-dado-joint/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Okay, so the grandparents wanted to see their grandchildren and we ended up having house guests for a few days. Ergo, no work was done on this project until Sunday morning. Anyway, back in business: Hour number 11: Hour eleven took place Sunday morning. I nearly completely finished the door during this hour. The first thing I did was to do a round over on the inside edge of the rails and stiles on the door. Then I assembled the doors with a couple of pre-finished flat panels and glued it up. Here's a picture of the door after completing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hour number 12 was also Sunday morning. It was a pretty good hour. I made the drawer fronts. The drawer fronts are super simple for this project. They are simply maple planks cut to fit the opening with a simple round over. You can see the drawer fronts leaning against the chifferobe in one of these two pictures I grabbed when the timer went off. You can also see the door balanced in the door opening. The other thing I did in this hour was to finish fitting up the door. To do that I used my LV bevel-up jointer plane. BTW - "If you have the means I highly recommend picking one of these up." This plane cuts sweeter than honey and fits my hands like it was built for me. ... Have I mentioned I love LV planes? You can see the plane if you look closely in the other picture below. Anyway I finished fitting up the door. It's ready to go except for final sanding. Hour number 12: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hour number 13: Hour number 13 also occurred Sunday morning. I wasn't all that productive this hour. But I did fix something that was bothering me. There was a gap at the top of one of the legs where it meets the top trim. It was sort of driving me crazy. So I filled the gap and sanded it smooth. You can still see the boo-boo, but now you pretty much have to be looking for it. This is the only hour I didn't take a picture at the end. Instead I took this picture after fixing the part that was bothering me. After fixing that bit I finished sanding the entire case, then headed back to the house for a late breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Crawford Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Well done. For me this would be about hour 73. . . . or maybe 173. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hour number 14: Hour number 14 was yesterday morning form 4AM to 5AM. I added the two clothes bars and sanded like crazy. All the drawers and the loose shelves got finish sanded. Most of it was done with the ROS, some by hand. When the timer went off everything was pretty much ready to take a finish. Just for fun, I leaned the unit back and placed in the drawer fronts, the shelves, and the door. This is pretty much how it will look when complete. Of course there will be hardware and the color will be a little richer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hour number 15: This hour was between about 4 and 5PM last night. I applied a coat of wipe on poly to everything that needed it. I make the wipe on poly myself. It's a very easy recipe. 1 part poly, 1 part mineral spirits. Then I rag this on. All the plywood I used was pre-finished so I only had to hit the maple hardwood parts and the pine drawers. It was a beautiful afternoon yesterday so I did a bunch of it outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Looks awesome Chet. What are the rails that you're holding the flat parts on for finishing? Are they just angle iron? Also do you tape around the prefinished parts so you don't get any poly on it, or are you just careful with your wiping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 bgreenb, Those "rails" are the edges of some walnut that I planed the other side of and than ran through the table saw. What's left is those edges which I use all the time on some super cheepo saw-horses to support work pieces. Pre-finished parts... I do NOT tape around them. I used to. But I found out that if you wipe carefully even if you get "a little" new poly on the prefinished parts it blends to the point where you can not tell.... AS LONG AS you wipe in the direction of the grain on the pre-finished parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hour number 16: Hour number 16 happened last night from about 9PM until 10PM. Basically hour number 16 looked just like hour number 15. I hit all the parts I finished with 220 sanding sponges and then put a second coat on them with the wiping varnish. (1/2 poly + 1/2 mineral spirits.) By the way, I decided NOT to count the 4 hours I was in the house hanging out with the family waiting for the first coat of finish to dry. I figured those aren't really work hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hour number 14: Hour number 14 was yesterday morning form 4AM to 5AM. I added the two clothes bars and sanded like crazy. All the drawers and the loose shelves got finish sanded. Most of it was done with the ROS, some by hand. When the timer went off everything was pretty much ready to take a finish. Just for fun, I leaned the unit back and placed in the drawer fronts, the shelves, and the door. This is pretty much how it will look when complete. Of course there will be hardware and the color will be a little richer. The Chifferobe Hour 14.jpgThe Chifferobe Hour 14a.jpg Darn this is looking awesome. Nice recovery on the small gap in previous pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hour number 17: Hour number 17 was last night after everyone went to bed. Too cold to put the final coat on outside so I brought it all back into the shop. Except for a couple of parts which I stuck in the garage. Here's a pic at the end of hour 17 showing the parts that were in the garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hour 18: Hour 18 was from 4:30AM - 5:30AM this morning. While everyone else in the house slept I started putting the drawers together. I got this far before the timer went off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hour 19: Yay! CHIFFEROBE! ta-da! It looks like the answer to my wife's question about how fast can I build a chifferobe is about 19 hours. (That's 19 man hours. That doesn't include things like drying time for the finish.) Over all, I'm happy with the chifferobe and more importantly so is my bride. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Outstanding work, Chet. I like the hardware choice, and thanks for making many of us look really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Darn this is looking awesome. Nice recovery on the small gap in previous pic. Thanks Ken. I'm happy with the repair as well. If you look at the final picture in hour 19, I think you'll agree its pretty hard to tell a repair was ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Outstanding work, Chet. I like the hardware choice, and thanks for making many of us look really bad. Thanks, I'm happy with it, and with some of the choices I made to get it done speedily. Later on, I'll critique it myself and perhaps even start another thread to discuss ways to make the process speedy and even some places I would have liked to have spent more time if the schedule would have allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Beautiful piece Chet. What took ya so long Me, I'd still be attaching the drawer guides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Awesome job Chet. The final product is excellent, and the pace you built it in was impressive. I really enjoyed following along - feel free to post more "hourly" builds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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