Project — "Making a Silver Chest"
Well, it is back to
the silver chest project, but this isn't Jessica. It is Andrea who will help
me complete the chest. Jessica's busy schedule made it impossible to get
together.
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Her first task was to run each of the boards through the thickness planer. The resawn boards were very smooth for resawing. She really is "dimensioning" the boards. She has four that will be the sides, and she wants these to be 1/2". The top boards will be 3/4" — thicker so that we can round over the top slightly and then there are two other boards that are 3/8" that we will use the drawer. While these are the finished dimensions she wants, she left each a little proud so that she can finish sand to 180 grit after the panels are made. |
I am not sure I made a
good decision to just pull the planer out and run the boards without the
dust collector. I have two. One is permanently attached to the router table
and the larger one is "land locked" on the other side of the shop. We had
very little to remove, but it sure mounts up as dust.
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Back at the worktable, Andrea double checks her inventory of boards. |
If you have followed this project from
the beginning, you will recall that one of the things we want to do is to
have the boards' end grain match the mating panel on all four corners.
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A close-up of these boards show that
they have pretty good widths but that they need jointing before Andrea can
glue them as panels.
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You know by now that we at WoodShopDemos
use the router table quite a bit. For edge jointing, we prefer this to the
long bed jointer that I have.
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We are using the CMT router table which has a specially shaped fence that allows Andrea to add two spacers behind the outfeed fence. There are two groove sets. The other set allows for a greater removal of material. We like the shallow set that yields about a 1/16" on each pass. She has also moved both the infeed and outfeed fences close to the bit. |
She pulls the fence forward and positions it so that the outfeed fence (with the spacers) is aligned with the pattern bearing of the straight bit. She can see that on the far right of the square, the infeed is back about 1/16". That is exactly what we want for edge jointing. |
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She joints each board by making as many
passes as is necessary. The "trick" is to listen to the cutting action. Even
with the hearing protectors, she can hear the bit remove wood. When it
removes wood along the entire length, the board is edge jointed.
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