I have the assembly all glued up. Now to clamp it. Normally half a dozen pipe clamps would be in order, but I don’t own a single one. (gift idea, wink wink, nudge nudge) So for my latest rope trick, I am going to make some shelf clamps. A bowline, a truckers hitch, and tie the …
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Assembling one of my shelving upright.
The first cross piece gets fitted into the uprights. It works! Being that I am working on the ground and not on a workbench, that I am inexperienced with this type of woodworking, and so on, and so forth, my mortise and tenon cuts aren’t perfect. When fitting the cross pieces to the uprights, I …
Marking and Cutting the Tenons
I marked the Tenon cut marks all the way around. I also made sure to X off the scrap on both ends at the same time so I didn’t accidentally end up with a 90 degree twist in my tenons. I cut the ends on my miter box down to the lines. It really helps to cut …
Mortising the uprights for the bookshelf
I remember my dad telling me to hide the worst face when your making something out of wood. That means that the worst of the knots in the wood are on the side that I will be cutting the mortises into. I had to flip the 2nd piece of wood so that the knots didn’t …
Cutting in the mortise.
Not being sure how to do the corners of a mortise and keeping things clean, I thought I would drill pilot holes. This should keep my chisel cuts from “running” down the wood beyond where I am cutting, and give me a gauge of how deep I need to go. I can’t really get them …