shaneymack Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 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 Marked out the piece for rough cuts Done Stock wider than my jointer so i used the laj to get it planer ready My favourite step- Resawing. My setup Always blown away at the cut quality on this saw Put the boards to rest overnight Tomorrow I will final mill and doveltail the case. Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 Sweet piece of cherry, Shane! Your buddy should be proud. And now I am jealous if your shop! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 Awesome! Looking forward to this journal! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 That looks like some nice lumber. Looking forward to this project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxerjoe04 Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 Something tells me your friend is going to think the tool chest will be too nice looking to use, probably wouldn't blame him haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Thanks guys! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klappco Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Can I trade you some BBQ for one of those? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Can I trade you some BBQ for one of those? Lol I'd probably take you up on that but I have a big green egg and enjoy smoking meat! I probably don't do as good a job as you though, that looks amazing !! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjk Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 9 hours ago, shaneymack said: Getting it all organised and cleaned out ready for sale Is your shop at your house? Are you going to be shopless for several months? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 2 hours ago, Klappco said: Can I trade you some BBQ for one of those? You can send that my way.. I'll trade one of my cutting boards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Looks awesome, glad to have another journal to watch...Did you guys find a new house yet? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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. Here are all those pieces resawed I dominoed all the panels 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 About 1 thousandth off in the 18 1/2". I can tolerate that. The 18 1/2" Panels just fit in the drumsander! Awesome Time to dovetail the case Test board Case all dovetailed 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 We need to change your name from Shaney to Speedy! Nice work, dude! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Would have taken me that long to re-familiarize myself to the D4 Nice job! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janello Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Just getting caught up here, looking sweet man and I love the LT18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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. 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 ! =) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Shane you're really moving along with this build, and it's looking good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Nice progress! The nice cherry doesn't hurt either 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Shane, what blade are you using on the bs? The cuts look awsome! You are moving to a MUCH warmer climate, right?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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. Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted April 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 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!! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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