Legs
Okay, winter’s here.
And of course that leaves us with the eternal question, why is it always the show face that chips out?
But at least the CA glue did the trick. And on with cutting more leg joints and then apron joints and then test fittings…
Chop, chop, chop…
Swear, swear, swear…
And then recut the mortice so the leg comes up above the apron to be trimmed.
At least the joints are tight enough. I can just about get a 0.10mm feeler gauge into parts of the joints when they’re set; I can’t get the 0.20mm one in.
So that’s all the leg joints cut, now, time for the halving joint for the aprons.
Looks okay, it’s the right way round at least (don’t have legs going up on one side and down on the other…)
But it’s a bit gappier than I’d like.… Read the rest
All the major work is done now, everything’s glued up (though the last of the oak boxes is still curing really) and the prep finishing is either done or in train…
The poplar boxes have all had a coat of sanding sealer here (again, just blonde shellac cut down from a 2# cut to a half-pound cut), and the outer box of one has been test-finished with red milk paint (more on that in a moment). The oak boxes have all been given a coat of the oak tea (with surfactant) and they got another early this morning. The poplar drawer front on the oak-and-poplar box got a coat of sanding sealer.
The oak-and-poplar pencil box, the sapele boxes and the ash boxes all got another coat of danish oil and after the excess was wiped off and it had had a while to set up, they all got a coat of shellac (blond 2# shellac for the ash boxes; garnet #2 shellac for the sapele and the oak&poplar boxes).…