Before I begin, forgive me if I make any mistakes as I have never posted on forums before. I have however, been a regular reader of this forum and am now ready to join in.
I thought I would begin with a smallish Tool Chest Build that I am making as a gift for a Builder Mate who is retiring in a couple of weeks. My aim is to create a chest to house his nicer hand tools and I would like to route his name on the inside of the lid. He has a bad back, so I'm trying to keep the overall weight under control.
I have two sheets of 9mm thick A bond plywood (2400 x 1200) laid up with Jarrah veneer good on one side and a downgrade Jarrah back. I intend to mitre and epoxy glue the entire chest. I will also be using the veneered plywood to create plant on stiles and rails and then bead with solid Jarrah inlay mouldings. The base will have a solid Jarrah moulded and scalloped plinth and an inlay moulded top with profiled surround.
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The drawing is just my initial thoughts and I have already changed the mouldings that I intend to use. I will be running these mouldings on a spindle moulder using custom ground cutters that I already have. But I'm not up to that yet.
image.jpgThese are the front, back and two sides with the mitre joins cut. The pieces are joined with masking tape, mitre point to mitre point, for ease of glueing. You can't see the tape as it is laying face down on the bench so that I can pre-sand the interior of the chest. Festool random orbital sander with a 3mm orbit and 240 grit sandpaper.
image.jpgThis shot shows the mitre ready for glueing.
image.jpgThis shows the front, back and two sides laying face down on the workbench, taped on the unseen face. You will notice later that I have the downgrade veneer positioned so that it will end up on the inside of the chest after the glue up.
image.jpgI have mixed a small quantity of epoxy and glued the mitres and then carefully lifted the four taped pieces and folded them into a box shape and then taped the last remaining mitre. Epoxy is great because it gives you plenty of glue up time and leaves an extremely strong and waterproof joint. On the downside, it is an overnight dry and is difficult to clean up when wet as it is not water based and it's a bugger to get off your hands. Once dry though, it sands easily and has good gap filling properties.
image.jpgTo ensure that the chest ends up nice and square, I have glued and nailed the base into position. No need to worry about the exposed ply edges as it is going to be coved by the plinth later on.
image.jpgimage.jpgNow it's time to prepare the plant on stiles and rails. For this I needed to veneer the edges of the plywood that will show a slight quirk once the inlay beading goes on. For this I'm using 0.4mm veneer strips. only the long edges need doing since the ends will be mitred and glued.
image.jpgimage.jpgNow it's time to glue the plants on. Careful cutting on a mitre saw with a sharp blade made this a simple exercise. A few clamps or some tape here and there, where necessary, is all that's required until the glue dries.
That's as far as I got today. I will continue the write up as I proceed.
Pete.
I thought I would begin with a smallish Tool Chest Build that I am making as a gift for a Builder Mate who is retiring in a couple of weeks. My aim is to create a chest to house his nicer hand tools and I would like to route his name on the inside of the lid. He has a bad back, so I'm trying to keep the overall weight under control.
I have two sheets of 9mm thick A bond plywood (2400 x 1200) laid up with Jarrah veneer good on one side and a downgrade Jarrah back. I intend to mitre and epoxy glue the entire chest. I will also be using the veneered plywood to create plant on stiles and rails and then bead with solid Jarrah inlay mouldings. The base will have a solid Jarrah moulded and scalloped plinth and an inlay moulded top with profiled surround.
image.jpg
The drawing is just my initial thoughts and I have already changed the mouldings that I intend to use. I will be running these mouldings on a spindle moulder using custom ground cutters that I already have. But I'm not up to that yet.
image.jpgThese are the front, back and two sides with the mitre joins cut. The pieces are joined with masking tape, mitre point to mitre point, for ease of glueing. You can't see the tape as it is laying face down on the bench so that I can pre-sand the interior of the chest. Festool random orbital sander with a 3mm orbit and 240 grit sandpaper.
image.jpgThis shot shows the mitre ready for glueing.
image.jpgThis shows the front, back and two sides laying face down on the workbench, taped on the unseen face. You will notice later that I have the downgrade veneer positioned so that it will end up on the inside of the chest after the glue up.
image.jpgI have mixed a small quantity of epoxy and glued the mitres and then carefully lifted the four taped pieces and folded them into a box shape and then taped the last remaining mitre. Epoxy is great because it gives you plenty of glue up time and leaves an extremely strong and waterproof joint. On the downside, it is an overnight dry and is difficult to clean up when wet as it is not water based and it's a bugger to get off your hands. Once dry though, it sands easily and has good gap filling properties.
image.jpgTo ensure that the chest ends up nice and square, I have glued and nailed the base into position. No need to worry about the exposed ply edges as it is going to be coved by the plinth later on.
image.jpgimage.jpgNow it's time to prepare the plant on stiles and rails. For this I needed to veneer the edges of the plywood that will show a slight quirk once the inlay beading goes on. For this I'm using 0.4mm veneer strips. only the long edges need doing since the ends will be mitred and glued.
image.jpgimage.jpgNow it's time to glue the plants on. Careful cutting on a mitre saw with a sharp blade made this a simple exercise. A few clamps or some tape here and there, where necessary, is all that's required until the glue dries.
That's as far as I got today. I will continue the write up as I proceed.
Pete.
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