Woodshop II

Woah.  I had so much fun today.

So, Home Depot didn’t have the thinner oak boards like they did.  Now that I have the band saw, though, this is no longer an issue, so I bought stock twice as thick as I need, and I’m going to resaw it on the bandsaw.  While at the HD, I also bought the parts I needed to build some nice pipe clamps.  Then I went to Ace to buy a large flatening plane (I have a small one, but I am going to need a big one to clean-up the panels I’m making).  While I was there, I also found out that they are carrying more and more quality woodworking stuff, which is awesome.

Once I got back to the woodshop, I first put together the pipe clamps.  Then I built a sliding table jig for the table saw.  Then I cut all of the rails and stiles for the frames, and cut the oak for the large panel.  In order to test a panel glue-up, I took the waste pieces from the large panel stock, resawed it in half on the bandsaw, and then glued-up a panel from the pieces.  Tomorrow, I’ll plane it smooth and make a few test panels.  If they work, I’ll hopefully be able to resaw and glue-up the panels tomorrow.  Since they are a little thin (about 3/8″ finished thickness, before milling), I want to make sure that the glue sets completely before I mill them.

After the glue on the panels is set, I’m going to “raise” them by about 1/16″ or so, then rout a 1/4″ x 1/8″ channel the whole way around the large panel for the main inlay.  Speaking of that, I’ll probably clean-up and resaw the mahogany for the inlay tomorrow, too.

I’m excited.  🙂

jonathan