A few months ago I did a Krenov style wall mounted bookcase in kiln dried American Ash...
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...and made a solemn vow to all the woodmangling gods that I would never, ever, under any circumstances use this foul wood again. It planes quite well; no problem there, but cutting half-respectable joinery in it would try the patience of Job as the late wood rings are like cast iron
However yesterday, we visited No.1 son and his better half, the lovely Emz, who quite liked the original when I posted something on InstaG. When I mentioned in passing that I had one remaining board....
...and did’t know what to do with it (apart from burning ) I suggested that she might like a wall mounted bookcase for her home office, similar to the one I made a while back. The result was a big, beaming smile, so that’s obviously another project to be added to the tuit list.
This afternoon then, I decided to extract the board and mill it up roughly into the component parts:
Prior to hacking off one end to make the vertical sides and then after copious deep sawings...
...on the big Ax bandsaw and thence onto the p/t, I now have a few boards (inc the drawer front) planed slightly over size by a couple of mm on all sides which will now go into ‘resting’ mode for a couple of weeks before I do anything else to it...rough size will be 1m x 190 x 400mm - Rob