Hand Crafted Woodworking
Intro The Sewing Cutting Table project continues. The cabinets are assembled and need some trim pieces. The video will show how I created and attached the trim to the cabinet pieces. The plywood trim pieces are attached using at Grex P635 pin nailer. The Video Tool Links Lie-Nielsen 5 1/2 Jack Plane […]
Intro I have built many pocket hole cabinets for my shop and other cabinet needs. Along the way I have delveloped some tips and techniques that you might find useful. This is my 3rd video. This was completed using bucket pod 1 & 2 which proved to be successful in their ease of setup in […]
Next step is the drawer cabinet. The design ( below ) is to have two shelf units and the drawer unit. NOTE: All parts of these cabinets are 3/4″ Home Depot Sande Ply. This process follows steps that I have developed over several projects. Determine the size of the box Decide drawer configuration with drawer […]
I have been looking at the area in my shop, I call the finish area. It has been a collector of junk at times. Recently I put a small folding table with a 30×60″ piece of plywood on top. I found this very useful for assembly, gluing and finishing. So I took […]
The Plan As part of the new crafts room for my wonderful wife, she has requested a sewing cutting table with storage. We looked at many pictures and the design was taken from the idea of two bookshelves under a 3 x 5 ft top. Many of the designs featured using Ikea book […]
The objective for today is mortises for the legs. The leg tenons have been cut but need the mortises. Since this needed exact registration, I decided to make a router template and cut the mortise using a Whiteside Ultimate Trim bit. This is a very robust and smooth cutting bit. So this will be a […]
Planer Infeed / Outfeed This project started when I was looking at Woodworking posts on Google+. A woodworker published a video of his solution to his “snipe” problem on his lunch box planer. The solution was to replace the in / out feed tables with a single surface from input to output. I would […]
The chisel Chest is done. I started the project on 5/25/2014. It was completed yesterday 7/22/2014. So About 8 weeks. Probably about 10 sessions in the shop. The chest uses full extension 16″ slides. There are 6 2 1/2″ drawers and one 5″ drawer. The carcus construction is all Home Depot SandePly with […]
With the sides complete with the sliders, I can put the cabinet together. Since this is going to be hidden in the shelf unit I decided not to do full top/bottom and back. I cut strips of 3/4″ plywood and drilled all of the pocket holes. Lots of clamps, as always. The finished cabinet turned […]
All of the drawer box parts where cut, with the bottom dado cut. I started by drilling all of the pocket holes. My standard box for utility drawers is 3/4″ ply with 1/4″ bottom. Since the box is made from plywood I do not worry about movement so the bottom dado can go on all […]
