The Woodshop Shed

Redemption

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You may remember my slice of humble pie posting a few weeks ago, where, because of an error I made creating the drawing, and not making a story stick,I built some doors that were too narrow for the opening. Well, after digesting that for a few days I proposed a "fix", or to build new doors. The fix was to add a piece of stock between the doors, attached to one door. The drawing looked like this, except the new piece would have grooves in it just like the door panels.




I didn't hear anything from the customer for over a week, so I contacted her to get her reaction. She said she might be OK with it, but said she wanted to use a piece of rosewood for contrast. OK, if you can find a piece of rosewood veneer, I'll use that. Another week passed so I contacted her again. This time she said she just didn't like the whole idea and would like to have new doors. OK, I'll do that.

But I'm pig headed at times, so I decided to build the center pieces and take the reworked doors to her and tell her to live with them for a couple of weeks. If she still hated them, I'd make new ones. Today was the day, and here's what they look like.



The center panels areattached to the right doors. There is a 3/8" groove on both edges of the panel to match the 3/8" horizontal gap between the two sets of doors.



There is an astragal let into a rabbett onthe back of the left door that fits into a rabbett in the right door to cover the gap between the doors.






She didn't say much when I was there, but later I got a text apologizing for not paying me (I didn't expect her to today.) and that the doors were growing on her. I take that as a good sign.

As a side note, I used:[font="Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Blum Compact Clip Soft-Close 5/8" Overlay, 2-Piece Screw-On[/font]hinges from WoodWorker's Hardware. They are the only compact faceframe soft close hinges I've found with the clip-onfeature and 3-way adjustability. The clip-on feature made installation so much easier, especially when I had to take them down and then reinstall them. Very nice hinges and features.

John

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Miniture Chests for Grandkids

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I finished these justin time for Christmas for 2 new Grandkids born in December. I used some clear 12x1 pine shelving boards that I had on hand collecting dust. The tops are white oak.The plans were in the book "Furniture in theSouthern Style" by Bob Lang and Glen Huey.


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Slab Flattening Jig- Build or Buy

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Thoughts on buying the jig below. I know, Vevor, right? How bad can it be? OK, maybe I don't want to know theanswer to that. I know othersmake good ones for $600-ish. I also know there are dozens/ hundreds of build your own videos out there. I know myself well enough that I will never spend more than $200 to buy one so those are out. I also know it's unlikely that I'll ever get enough round-to-its saved up to build my own in the foreseeable future. Primary use would be to flatten my workbench top and get rid of some battle scars. 20+ years old and it's due. Secondary, I'd like to have a dedicated jig to flatten the occasional live edge/ wide slab I come across. I'm getting into sawmilling so I see having some nice slabs to flatten down the road. If this thing isn't a total piece of junk I think it's got everything I need (for now) and nothing I don't and the price is worth it to me if it makes the job easier. Thoughts?

And I briefly considered hand planing my bench, but it's laminated beech with zero thoughts given to grain direction when I glued it up. Soit's pretty gnarly. I think I would make it worse flattening by hand. I also have some pretty deep dings (~3/16") that I'd like to take out while I'm at it.

I think I'd spend at least this making my own out of 80/20 or similar and like I alluded above, my shop time is limited these days so I'm really leaning heavily towarda pre-made jig.


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