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'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - DUN

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'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - DUN

Postby Woodbloke » 17 Oct 2015, 17:16

Some of you chaps have indicated that you wanted to see a WIP of the next job, SWIMBO's big Makepeace chest of drawers, or my interpretation of it thereof. The original had 18 drawers, but the top four were too shallow, so I've kept the overall dimensions but decreased the number of drawers to 14, thus making each bigger.

I always start of with a full size, half size or 1:5 working drawing.

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I use a bit of wallpaper lining paper, taped to a backing board to do the drawing and this one's a 1:2 showing a front and top elevation, dimensions done in red.

Where needed, I always do detail drawings and full cutting lists...

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...pinned to the 'shop notice board, along with all the mug shots of the kids :D from when they were very little to last month (spot the crew cut No1 son)

The oak for the frames has been secondary conditioning for several years now in the 'shop and I've just machined it to final sizes, a smidge over size (0.25mm) to allow for a skim with a sharp No.5.

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The walnut drawer sides and fronts were...

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...machined over size some weeks ago and are just doing their own 'thang'...the stuff in the middle is just offcuts. Next job is to skim all the bits with a jack place and start shooting all the components for the frames to length. Each of the frames is more or less the same and will be dominod together, with oak faced dust boards, so there's going to be quite a bit of repetitive work - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby Wizard9999 » 17 Oct 2015, 22:25

:D :D :D
I think this going to be a great thread!
Keep it coming Rob.

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby TrimTheKing » 21 Oct 2015, 08:14

Looking forward to this Rob

Can you please consider the rest of us though and be a little more bloody disorganised!!

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby Stargazer » 21 Oct 2015, 12:03

Rob,

Quick question, looking at the drawing and piles of pre-prepared wood, what sort of timescale from initial idea, to drawing preparation, pre-sizing wood and conditioning, before you actually start work on a piece?

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby Woodbloke » 21 Oct 2015, 18:14

Stargazer wrote:Rob,

Quick question, looking at the drawing and piles of pre-prepared wood, what sort of timescale from initial idea, to drawing preparation, pre-sizing wood and conditioning, before you actually start work on a piece?

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

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Depends really on the project, but SWIMBO picked this one from some Google pics so there was little if any designing to do. but I like to leave the wood as long as possible to condition in the 'shop. The walnut's been in there for around two years and was pretty dry when I bought it, the oak was definitely longer - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby Pinch » 23 Oct 2015, 20:15

This is what I like to see... tidy and organised. 8-)
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP

Postby Woodbloke » 26 Oct 2015, 13:33

Progress is on going on this one, but this morning I came across an unexpected problemo in that for some strange and bizarre reason :eusa-doh: the shooting board was no longer cutting square. I checked the frog and blade on the No51 for grunge and that was set up spot on. It transpires that over the last few years I'd used the shooting board so much that the constant pressure had worn away part of the acrylic runway.

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Three strips of thin card underneath the runway have now trued it again and it's working prefick :D

The first part of this job is the construction of eight identical horizontal frames (only the top and bottom ones are slightly different) and the pile of timber shown below:

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...on a temporary table is all the stuff for those frames wot's been skimmed with a long try plane and the ends shot square where needed.

I'm currently in the marking out phase:

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...with all rails (the back one's here) being cramped, marked and shot to the right length - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 1

Postby Woodbloke » 14 Nov 2015, 15:44

The first of the horizontal frames glued up:

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Only seven more to go :( - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 2

Postby Woodbloke » 05 Dec 2015, 14:11

All horizontal frames have been done, including the top frame, which is slightly different to the others as it will have the walnut veneered panel inset into it. The pic shows the underside with one half of the mitred bridle joint:

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Jointing was done on the router table with an 8mm cutter and then cleaned up, mitres made using a long Jap paring chisel and 45deg chiseling block - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Rod » 05 Dec 2015, 16:17

Nice job - very clean lines.

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby StevieB » 05 Dec 2015, 18:03

:text-+1: Seriously impressive!

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Mike G » 05 Dec 2015, 20:57

That is a lovely looking joint. Do you have a photo of your paring jig, Rob?
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Woodbloke » 06 Dec 2015, 00:16

Mike G wrote:That is a lovely looking joint. Do you have a photo of your paring jig, Rob?

It's nothing fancy Mike, but I'll see if I can sort a pic out tomorrow - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Phil » 06 Dec 2015, 07:44

StevieB wrote::text-+1: Seriously impressive!

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Andyp » 06 Dec 2015, 08:51

Can't wait to see the other half of that joint. Clever stuff as always.
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby RogerM » 06 Dec 2015, 19:40

You could just cut a mitre and domino it together. :lol:

OK, I'll get my coat! :text-imsorry:

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Woodbloke » 06 Dec 2015, 23:34

RogerM wrote:You could just cut a mitre and domino it together. :lol:

OK, I'll get my coat! :text-imsorry:

Loving this thread.

Thought about that one Roger, but it's too difficult to set the machine up as I would have had to cut the Dom slots in an area about 50 x 35mm. A traditional joint was the easiest way, but it needs to be super accurate :eusa-pray: for everything to line up - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby TrimTheKing » 07 Dec 2015, 14:16

Very nice looking joint Rob. :eusa-clap:

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Dan0741 » 08 Dec 2015, 23:10

I aspire to this! To someone who is new to all this - it staggers me that this can be cut so accurately. :o Sorry to ask but what is a 45 degree chiselling block? - I've looked it up and the only reference I can find is re paving slabs? :D
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby TrimTheKing » 09 Dec 2015, 02:43

Dan0741 wrote:I aspire to this! To someone who is new to all this - it staggers me that this can be cut so accurately. :o Sorry to ask but what is a 45 degree chiselling block? - I've looked it up and the only reference I can find is re paving slabs? :D


It's a lot less fancy than it sounds...;)

A lump of wood planed square and with a 45deg angle cut on one end. Clamp it to your work where you need to pare at 45 and slide your chisel along it until you have your subject timber on the same flat plane as the 45deg block. Simples.

I'm sure there are many different and more ornate ones but that's it in its most basic form.

One day Rob will be practiced enough to pare to the line without one :eusa-whistle:

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Wizard9999 » 09 Dec 2015, 09:34

Beauty Rob :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap:

TrimTheKing wrote:It's a lot less fancy than it sounds...;)

A lump of wood planed square and with a 45deg angle cut on one end. Clamp it to your work where you need to pare at 45 and slide your chisel along it until you have your subject timber on the same flat plane as the 45deg block. Simples.

Shame, saw the opportunity to make another jig instead of doing some woodwork :(

TrimTheKing wrote:I'm sure there are many different and more ornate ones but that's it in its most basic form.

Phew, that's OK then :lol: .
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Andyp » 09 Dec 2015, 10:14

Terry if you really want to you cold make a mItre jack or mitre shooting block like this.

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I think that my father still has a couple in his garage that my grandfather made. I'll try and get some photos after Xmas.
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby Woodbloke » 09 Dec 2015, 19:22

TrimTheKing wrote:
Dan0741 wrote:I aspire to this! To someone who is new to all this - it staggers me that this can be cut so accurately. :o Sorry to ask but what is a 45 degree chiselling block? - I've looked it up and the only reference I can find is re paving slabs? :D


It's a lot less fancy than it sounds...;)

A lump of wood planed square and with a 45deg angle cut on one end. Clamp it to your work where you need to pare at 45 and slide your chisel along it until you have your subject timber on the same flat plane as the 45deg block. Simples.

I'm sure there are many different and more ornate ones but that's it in its most basic form.

One day Rob will be practiced enough to pare to the line without one :eusa-whistle:

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Indeed, nothing fancy. My double-ended mitre chiseling block is shown resting on a block of gash ash, ready for mitring, as well as the big Jap paring chisel. They're sitting on the top, now veneered with 9mm ply and 4mm thick English walnut, book matched veneers. I've just machined the 6mm wide groove all the way round for the ebony line to fit...tomorrow's job.

Mark...is there an smilie for the middle digit? If not, we need one :lol: - Rob
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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 4

Postby TrimTheKing » 09 Dec 2015, 19:48

Haha. I will see if I can find one... ;)

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Re: 'Makebloke' Chest of Drawers WIP - update 3

Postby chataigner » 12 Dec 2015, 10:40

Dan0741 wrote:I aspire to this! To someone who is new to all this - it staggers me that this can be cut so accurately. :o Sorry to ask but what is a 45 degree chiselling block? - I've looked it up and the only reference I can find is re paving slabs? :D


No-one can saw that accurately, but you can chisel to the line VERY accurately using one of these shooting blocks :

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Mine is being used here to mitre the mouldings on a door.
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