Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
milestone on Chester Chest
bill tindall
>Got the top and front double humped molding on. Once again the fretting was more time consuming and stressful than the execution. Took more than the usual effort to square this thing at glue up and it paid off on the miters, see PIC 2.
miters
bill tindall
>these moldings were made by nibbling, planes and scraping with scraping the most effective at refinement. I have yet to learn the trick to hollows and rounds.
Nice!
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA
>Very well done Bill! Looks like a tad of beading all around it. I like the arch beading myself. Well done! Let's see it finished...
Looking really good!
John in New Mexico
>I love working with walnut. Did you cut the raised panels by hand or on a shaper (or router)? Looks to me like all your fretting has paid off.
John
Re: miters ... They be looking nice.
V Parisian
>Hey Bill,
This looks like a real nice piece. Nice details.
Couldn't spot the freting in the pics. :)
Thanks for sharing hope to see some more of this.
Victor - in warm and humid Houston
Beautiful work, Bill! Very impressive!
Wiley Horne
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raised panels
bill tindall
>the bevel is huge for this huge panel so no router or shaper would do it; too scary anyway. I'm terrified by shapers and large router bits so I don't risk owning either.
It was rough cut on table saw and then refined with shoulder plane. It was a fair amount of futzing to get the fit right. Changing the fit changes the plane of the panel relative to the frame. I realized that fact as I was doing fitting or it would have been preceeded by days of fretting like some of the other worrisome tasks.
I like tools that do a multitude of tasks and a shoulder plane sure fits that bill. This plane was also indispensible for the top molding as well as the flats of the double hump molding. Of all the tools I discovered too late in life the shoulder plane is my 1st regret at not having discovered it earlier. It is the last plane I would give up as no sanding or power tool can replace its function.
Re: miters.... labor of love
Dave Thompson
>Beautiful work Bill. The molding, miter shot really shows off the detail. I like the double reed front. Is that what you decided to call it? I like how you handled the double reed molding butting into the corner stile, and the detail on the bottom of your arches. very nice.
I share your appreciation for shoulder planes. It's generally the first plane I recommend...
Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing it with drawers.
Dave