Adam's Challenge

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Paul in NJ

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Alan Bierbaum

>"Well I didn't come anywhere near Adam's estimate of a day and a half but I am proud and a little suprised I completed it in 27 hours with only hand tools.

I had a whole lot of fun and tuned some new-old tools that I can now add to my stable. Adam, thank you for taking the time to put this project together and for your posts to this forum. "

It looks great. I will post final pictures of mine in about a week (when I wax it). I also think that this was a very fun project and a great way to "get in touch" with old and new hand tools.

Alan

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Darrell in Oakville

>Nice job Paul! I hope I do half as well...

The rough sawn stock sitting in my wood rack, waiting for me to get started on this project. Once my elbow heals up the Handtool Challenge is at the top of the to-do list. Golfer's elbow the doc says. Strange thing is I have *never* played golf. Go figure.

Darrell

Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User

Looks nice!

Tim of San Leandro

>You must have a big hollow or round (I forget which cuts a cove) to have cut that cove molding. Unless there is another way.....

Tim

Very nice

Dan Donaldson

>I am glad to see people doing the challenge, except that it shames me because I haven't started yet. (but I will);-)

A couple of questions:

What are you going to use it for now that you made it?

What kind of wood did you use?

What tools did you use to make the big molding?

What do you think was the main thing that you gained by doing this?

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Matti Kuikka

>Very nice proportions and excellent work. What are the dimensions as it may be the largest yet. Fun, wasn't it.

Matti Kuikka

A couple of answers...

Paul In NJ

>Dan,

I plan on donating the chest to my wife's auxiliary at Historic Allaire Village. They have a holiday sale in December and I usually have something for them.

I used #2 common pine I found at the orange borg. I sorted through the 1x12x4' bin to find quarter sawn boards with clear cuttings. I also used #2 5/4 stock to re-saw for the drawers. The re-sawed stock was more economical and less 'clunky' for a small chest.

I used a size 18 hollow plane to cut the cove on the upper molding. I leveled the bottom section with a Stanley 78 fillister and the bottom edge was done with a small wooden molding plane. The bottom molding was done with the same small wooden plane.

I found that if you work smart and know how to tune and use your hand tools, you can build an attractive durable piece in a fair amount of time. With practice and repetition my sawing and other skills would improve and so would my speed. I think there are 'tricks' to be learned that lead to better productivity. Tricks like marking only one drawer side and cutting both sets of tails at the same time. I really need to work on my layout skills, I spend a lot of time doing things like marking dovetails. All in all it was a whole lot of fun relying on hand skills instead of using the built in accuracy of power tools.

Paul Dzioba

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Dan Donaldson

>I think that we need to at minimum, collect pictures of all of the projects that people make for this and make a page out of it if everyone is agreeable. I will talk to Ellis and to Adam and see what we can do. What I would like to do is make up a gallery of finished projects, as well as have the pages that Adam set up (If he agrees to this, I can copy the pages and host them here on WC so as not to eat his bandwidth). I could also set up individual pages for those that have done photos of progress. It could be put together as a sort of mini site with a home page and links to the other parts.

Anyone have opinions about doing this? I will volunteer to put it together if all the parties agree.

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William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>I'm not particpating, except vicariously, in the Challenge, but I have a couple of suggestions, if you decide to put something like that together.

Iinclude, in the home page, a restatement of the challenge, a note that the challenge is on-going, and anyone can particpate and get their project included, a short "bio" of the West Jersey Curmdugeon himself, and the work he does at Pennsbury Manor, where to get help with tools and techniques (right here, of course), where to post progress reports (which we all love to read).

Sounds good to me!

Paul In NJ

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Great ideas.

Dan Donaldson

>It might be a bit of a misnomer to say "home page". What I mean is that it would be hosted totally here on WC, perhaps in the Other Articles section with a heading of its own, but would have the equivalent of a "home page" when you open it with links to all the various features. I like all of the ideas you shared. If everyone agrees, and we do it, I will probably post for more ideas as I put it together. I will let everyone know what comes out of it. If the thread gets buried too deep before something happens, I will start a new one.

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Adam Cherubini, NJ

>Dan,

Copying my website, with its fascinating "Arts and Mysteries" section is fine with me. Before that happens, I'd like to revise the site, though. There are few mistakes and some things that need clarification:

1/gs = 1+gs. That's not real clear. I always thought it would be interesting to do some more study on workshop math. The algebra looks complicated, but the divider tricks are an astoundingly practical juxtaposition.

Also:

I have a questionaire I'd like each participant to complete. I was hoping their answers could be helpful to other workers. Perhaps your new website would be the perfect place to collect such data.

Adam

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Alan Bierbaum

>Sounds good to me. I am within an hour, or less, of finishing and taking the final pictures. Will probably happen next week. Just let me know what you want and where to send it.


My challenge web pages

Fine

Matti Kuikka

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Dimensions

Paul in NJ

>Matti,

The dimensions are:

20"/50.8cm high, 19-1/4"/48.8cm wide, and 12"/30.5cm deep.

Paul Dzioba