Fettling
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More shed time today, and I spent the first half of it fettling the middle shelf in the desk. Straightforward, if repetitive process – assemble, check what’s too tight and what’s too loose, cut or pare the shelf a little narrower with saw and chisel, reassemble, recheck, repeat until the dovetail joint that was horribly stressed by the shelf being too wide:
![](http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_3549a.jpg)
…is no longer stressed, but just snug:
![](http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_3557a.jpg)
And doublecheck all the other joints to be sure nothing else is opening up.
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Okay, I’m happy with that.
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I’m also happy because before assembling this, I marked out the back of the top of the sides to show which bits had to be cut off to give a straight line across the back (because the top goes up against the wall for support), and when I assembled it:
![](http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_3566a.jpg)
Nice straight line.… Read the rest