For You Lot Tool Box Made Past Times Paw From A Fine Woodworking Plan.

Gary, a skillful client from Oregon USA, sent me these shots, along alongside a prissy description. Wait till y'all come across those dovetailed bench stops! I permit him accept y'all through the project.

The computer programme for a few years was to construct the dovetailed toolbox from a Fine Woodworking computer programme but to utilisation manus tools for everything except simply about of the virtually basic stock training in addition to large cuts inwards plywood.

After buying in addition to successfully using the David Barron 1:6 dovetail guide on simply about sample projects I bought the ninety bird angle guide alongside hopes that it would brand cutting tenons to a greater extent than productive alongside manus tools.  The woods is clear pino in addition to conduct maintain cloth was 1-1/2 past times iii inches, then I needed skillful crosscut capacity.  I ordered a Gyokucho 371 saw for this utilisation but virtually of the cuts shown were made earlier that saw arrived.

Figures 1 through 4 are my origin cuts alongside the 90º angle guide but alongside a substandard backless saw.  Fig 1 is the layout on the 1-1/2 past times iii inch blank.  Fig ii is 1 of the origin tenon cuts, which was quite slowly using David’s suggested elevator guide, fifty-fifty alongside the fine molar saw.  Fig iii shows the origin iv cheek cuts in addition to Fig 4 shows the origin completed tenon, which was perfect correct off the saw in addition to did non require paring chisel work.

Fig five shows the origin cuts inwards the in conclusion conduct maintain cloth alongside the 90º guide in addition to a Japanese Katabe saw I happened to have.  This was a improve choice, but non equally skillful equally the still-back ordered Gyokucho 371.  The longer saw alongside the to a greater extent than venture conduct maintain was preferred.

Fig half-dozen shows cutting the tenon shoulders alongside the Gyokucho 372 in addition to my dovetailed bench stops.

Fig seven shows the completed tenon correct from the saw.

By design, the tenons equally cutting were a fighting larger than their intended mortise in addition to needed to last planed to tally equally shown inwards Fig 8.

Fig ix shows the initial complex glue-up of the large dovetailed tool box alongside its iv dovetailed sides, bottom, conduct maintain in addition to internal dividers.

Thanks to David Barron’s dovetail in addition to 90º guides in addition to the bench jigs made for in addition to alongside them, the toolbox went together quite easily alongside large scale tenons that were easily cuts alongside cheeks that were dead on in addition to required no chisel work.

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