Drawering to a close…
The idea was to get the last bits done today. Didn’t quite make it, but came close.
Got the cot out of the shed first so I could do some work. Looks nice in the sunshine…
Then made up the glue blocks I was thinking about yesterday to support the top panel.
And then gathered all the tools up…
The #778 is there to cut a small alignment rebate on the inside of the tails for the dovetails, in what Rob Cosman refers to as the “140 trick”. I don’t have a Stanley #140 (it’s a rather expensive skew-blade block plane) and the #778 is a little finicky for this, but it works if you’re careful. The idea is that you cut a tiny little ledge in the tailboard and after the tails are cut you sit the pinboard up against the tails and on that ledge to align it and let you mark the pins more easily (and it works quite well).… Read the rest