Dovetails, a lot of dovetails. That's one sentence to describe the class at the
Philadelphia Furniture Workshop I started on Monday. They call it "a dovetails
tour de force" with 80 inches of dovetails in the whole project. The chest itself is beautiful, the primary wood is butternut, which saws and chisels amazingly. The moulding and breadboard end are of quartersawn red oak which, I'm told, will age well with the butternut. My practice dovetails were great, and I'm very happy with my progress thus far.
These first few photos are of the practice piece, it's only about 9 inches long, and has 4.5 tails...that's only half of one side.
Look at those tails, we are taught to scribe heave baselines. This makes it easy to "flick" away material to create a shelf of sorts to pare from. It makes a great difference on the show side I feel.
My fret saw usually starts leaving a lot of waste on the left side of the board towards the end when I'm in a good groove I have this little bit left. If I can get to this consistently, I'll have alot less paring to do.
This is the end of the first days work, all parts cut to length, practice DT's cut, all tools sharp, tails cut on the back and tails laid out and sawn on the front board.
I got to work quickly this morning, getting the first side pared and test fit. It's great! by the end of today I had the back and sides fit, all I have to do is cut pins on the sides for the front and I have a case! I'm very excited.
These first few photos are of the practice piece, it's only about 9 inches long, and has 4.5 tails...that's only half of one side.
Look at those tails, we are taught to scribe heave baselines. This makes it easy to "flick" away material to create a shelf of sorts to pare from. It makes a great difference on the show side I feel.
My fret saw usually starts leaving a lot of waste on the left side of the board towards the end when I'm in a good groove I have this little bit left. If I can get to this consistently, I'll have alot less paring to do.
This is the end of the first days work, all parts cut to length, practice DT's cut, all tools sharp, tails cut on the back and tails laid out and sawn on the front board.
I got to work quickly this morning, getting the first side pared and test fit. It's great! by the end of today I had the back and sides fit, all I have to do is cut pins on the sides for the front and I have a case! I'm very excited.
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