Basic Tool Chest


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Its been a crazy month in our house. We put our house up for sale which was a heck of an ordeal. Getting it all organised and cleaned out ready for sale with 4 kids was A LOT of work! One of my buddies is a pro painter. He works for the contractor that I use to paint the houses I build. He came over a couple weeks ago for a few days and painted a good portion of the house with me. We normally barter so I told him I'd build him something in return. He wants a tool chest so that is what im doing. I googled tool chests and liked the simplicity of the north bennet street tool chest that the students do there. This will be based on that. Its basically a dovetailed box with some drawers. Pretty simple but It will be fun. Im stoked to do this for my friend because he is a very simple guy and would have been happy with mdf screwed together. He will really appreciate it.

Anyways, with that out of the way it was back to the shop for me today. The chest will be made of cherry and internals will be poplar. All solid wood, no ply. Solid drawer bottoms and solid shiplapped back. Here is a pic of the big cherry stick I'm starting with

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Marked out the piece for rough cuts

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Done

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Stock wider than my jointer so i used the laj to get it planer ready

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My favourite step- Resawing. My setup

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Always blown away at the cut quality on this saw

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Put the boards to rest overnight

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Tomorrow I will final mill and doveltail the case.

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17 hours ago, sjk said:

Is your shop at your house?  Are you going to be shopless for several months?

My shop is in my single garage right now. So when we move hopefully it will be a bigger garage and the transition from this one to the next one will be easy. I dont forsee being without a shop at all. My only criteria for the new house is that my tools fit lol

15 hours ago, JosephThomas said:

Looks awesome, glad to have another journal to watch...Did you guys find a new house yet?

We have been visiting houses in the town we want to move to and have found a few that would work. We just have to find someone to buy ours!

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Here is the layout for the pieces of the chest. Left side, top, and right side all cut sequentially for grain continuitiy around the whole chest. Bottom follows as well just didnt have room on my bench for the photo.

 

 

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Here are all those pieces resawed

 

 

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I dominoed all the panels

 

 

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Once all four panels were out of the clamps i needed to square up an end. Who needs an mft. With these rail dogs and the top i made i can cut panels almost as well as the mft

 

 

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About 1 thousandth off in the 18 1/2". I can tolerate that.

 

 

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The 18 1/2" Panels just fit in the drumsander! Awesome

 

 

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Time to dovetail the case

 

 

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Test board

 

 

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Case all dovetailed

 

 

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I got a little bit of blowout at beginning of each first half pin socket. I will have to fix that or put a roundover.

Next i will dado the sides for the internal framing for the drawers.

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Looking great shane! I get that same blow out sometimes with my jig on the first and last pin socket. Last time I used a sacrificial board on either side and just re-use it. Since the blow out occurs below the pin socket you don't need a new one each time. Don't you just love it when your test board is perfect and then you get blowout on the project piece. :angry:

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42 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said:

We need to change your name from Shaney to Speedy! Nice work, dude!

 

33 minutes ago, TIODS said:

Would have taken me that long to re-familiarize myself to the D4 ;)

Nice job! 

Thanks guys!

I walked out of the shop today thinking to myself how long this project is taking me! All I have are 4 boards dovetailed together !! The longest part so far was dealing with the potato chipping that happened after resawing. Took a while to get one side flat with the hand plane. 

 

26 minutes ago, Janello said:

Looking great shane! I get that same blow out sometimes with my jig on the first and last pin socket. Last time I used a sacrificial board on either side and just re-use it. Since the blow out occurs below the pin socket you don't need a new one each time. Don't you just love it when your test board is perfect and then you get blowout on the project piece. :angry:

 

Thanks John! Thats a good idea. I thought of backing it up before i routed my project boards but I thought to myself i didnt need to because the test boards were fine...So annoying! I guess it can easily be repaired or I can put a roundover. 

25 minutes ago, Brendon_t said:

Just getting caught up here,  looking sweet man and I love the LT18

Thanks Brendon! Ya i love that saw as well, it so nice to resaw on it. 

10 minutes ago, treeslayer said:

count me in on this one shane, i've been wanting to build one of those for a long time now, looking for inspiration and ideas. looking great, i have the same leigh jig and i really like it, cherry is my go-to wood, beautiful stuff 

Thanks Dave ! Hope you find something along the way that will help you out ! =)

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Shane, what blade are you using on the bs? The cuts look awsome! You are moving to a MUCH warmer climate, right??

Im using a 1" resaw king. Amazing blade!!

No not moving to a warmer climate, I wish ! We will be 40 mins west of montreal instead of 25 mins south.

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I hope your buddy is a hell of a painter.  You build right.  Looking good man.  Love the way you bookmatched and wrapped the grain.  Details.  Good stuff.

Ya he is a great painter. He is always willing to help me out with stuff so it makes it easy to want to give back. He is paying materials so this is really costing me nothing and i get to have fun in my shop with free materials ! Life is good!!

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