Popular Post Chet Posted October 2, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 I am presently working on the Barrister's Bookcase from the guild. I am pretty much following Marc's plans and video right down the line. I had the CF card go bad in my camera so what you are not going to see in pictures is the initial layout of all the walnut parts and rough cut to size of the pieces for the side frames. Also missing are the pictures of the rough cut, planing and drum sanding to final thickness of the cherry panels that fit inside of the side frames. By the time I had the camera working again I had cut the side frame pieces to size, put groves in everything for the cherry panels, cut the tenons and fine tune the fit with my rabbiting block plane and put a small chamfer on all of the inside edges. Sanded all of the cherry panels and ready to cut to final size. Dry fit and ready to glue up. All six side frames glued up and in clamps for the evening. I am pretty happy with the way everything fit with the joints, they came together real nice and tight. I have a couple of tiny gaps that I will fix with CA glue and sanding 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 Having seen these in person, you did a super nice job Chet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Looks good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick S Posted October 3, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Very nice, Chet! Your first photo almost looked like aluminum rather than walnut for some reason. My initial thought was is it 5052 or maybe 6063? The walnut looks much nicer than either. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewyo Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Great stuff! I'm looking forward to following along on any project, but I was curious about the B-Bookcase. Seems like an interesting project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Ive been looking forward to seeing this, Chet ! Looking great ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 A barristers bookcase was my grandfathers last project. He built it with red oak, your walnut & maple looks much better ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Great start! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan G Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Looking forward to following this build! Looks great so far! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 23 minutes ago, micks said: Very nice, Chet! Your first photo almost looked like aluminum rather than walnut for some reason. My initial thought was is it 5052 or maybe 6063? The walnut looks much nicer than either. Ha, Very interesting observation Micks, I went back and looked, it does sort of look like aluminum 11 minutes ago, wdwerker said: A barristers bookcase was my grandfathers last project. He built it with red oak, your walnut & maple looks much better ! I was actually giving quarter sawn white oak a thought but my wife really liked the way the walnut and cherry looked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chet Posted October 4, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Next I set up to do the door grooves on the router table. My test piece. Because of the thickness of my ply material I needed to be 1 3/16 inches down from the top... ...and 1/4 inch deep. For the left side frames I need the stop block on the left side. Test piece to make sure the stop block was the correct distance. Left side frames done. For the right side frames I switched the stop block to the right. This time I had to do a drop cut to start and I also followed with a scrap to eliminate tear out. Six door grooves. Next I set up to do a 1/4 inch rabbet 1/2 inch deep for the back panels. I needed two stop blocks for this so I borrowed the one from my Incra miter gauge - the advantage of having Incra router table and miter gauge. Another drop cut and I did it in two passes. And six rabbets 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Looking awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Walnut and cherry is even better ! I just skimmed and thought it was maple . Your progress is looking good ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodger. Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 45 minutes ago, Chet K. said: Next I set up to do the door grooves on the router table. My test piece. Because of the thickness of my ply material I needed to be 1 3/16 inches down from the top... ...and 1/4 inch deep. For the left side frames I need the stop block on the left side. Test piece to make sure the stop block was the correct distance. Left side frames done. For the right side frames I switched the stop block to the right. This time I had to do a drop cut to start and I also followed with a scrap to eliminate tear out. Six door grooves. Next I set up to do a 1/4 inch rabbet 1/2 inch deep for the back panels. I needed two stop blocks for this so I borrowed the one from my Incra miter gauge - the advantage of having Incra router table and miter gauge. Another drop cut and I did it in two passes. And six rabbets Quiet, I'm hunting wabbits... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 That is looking awesome, nice work. 1 hour ago, Pug said: Quiet, I'm hunting wabbits... Lol. I liked Marcs video on the free site, reminds me of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chet Posted October 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Light day today. I squared up the door grooves that I routed the day before. Squared up the rabbets Did the lay out and drilled the holes for the door pins. Of course I did each one of these tasks six times. Then I went to the lumber yard to pick up the two sheets of walnut ply that are needed. I have been putting this off until I got to that point in th project because I don't have any place to store sheet goods 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Nice work Chet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Looking great, Chet ! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat60 Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Very nice work Chet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Cut the plywood to rough size. It takes a little longer when your track saw looks more like a Big Old Heavy Skil saw and a clamp on straight edge, but it's done. Next I cut some 1/4 X 3/4 inch strips to use for edge banding on the fronts of the top and bottom pieces. When I glued them up I took a top piece and bottom piece with the banding facing against each other to act as cauls to give me more even pressure on the glue up. I left the strips proud on both sides of the ply so I can flush them up evenly. And all clamped up for a few hours. Then I cleaned up the glue squeeze out and flushed up the banding with my cabinet scraper. Then cut all the 3/4 ply pieces to final width and length. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 6, 2016 Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Clean work, Chet. Looking good so far. I really wanted to do this project but "stuff" got in the way. I'll double back for it one day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted October 6, 2016 Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Looking awesome Chet! Glad to see that new sled in action! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted October 6, 2016 Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Chet, your journals are awesome man. Great materials+ great tools+ great skill= great time! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted October 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted October 6, 2016 Report Share Posted October 6, 2016 Looks great Chet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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