Saturday, June 02, 2007

Stack collapse

Shop view west. Yesterdays stack has collapsed into itself with all the mortices and tenons cut and the center section having had its first rough fitting. I need to take that all to bits and true up each of the rail tenons one at a time and then stick it back up together for a first clamped fitting. It wasn't 28 joints after all, 32, it is a testament to my poor maths ability.
The things I was trying to explain back on may 5 and 6 might be better understood looking at this photo, the wood arm sticking out from the bench at bottom left, etc. Under the bench I have a steel map chest that is home to many tools. It is amazing how much weight those roller drawers will hold, you just have to take care never to open more than a few at once or the whole thing will tip over on you and you have a lap full of spanners and whatnot.
The machine I use to cut mortices is on the floor in the opening between the two halves of the shop (scrappy drawing back on october 29). I have some of that foam matting on the floor in this half of the shop so I usually sit on the edge of that on the floor to use that machine.
I do hope an excellent weekend is being had by all.