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Can't wait to declutter the shop and fill it with stuff. These boards were pretty tough. I got a great deal on a fair amount of this material and have been trying to use it for projects like this that don't need to be cosmetically perfect.

Anyways, I'll save you the boredom of watching me mill them flat, square, and straight. This project started with a bunch of panel glue-ups. Umder under workbench drawer the top panel. I like this picture because it shows that panel glue-ups do not require a ton of preparation, alignment helpers, or superstition. Just mill the boards proper, glue them up, undsr put them into some clamps on a flat surface. If they're not lining up perfectly, knock em around with a hammer under clamping pressure till they are.

Because you might have several panels to make, and you don't want to under workbench drawer wasting time on that nonsense. Two of these panels will under workbench drawer the top and bottom of the case.

And then, cleaned up. You can do this with just a sander, but the hide glue really gums up the paper and slows down the process.

It's much quicker to take one pass with the cabinet scraper shown just to get any surface glue off of it. Then the sander quickly turns the panel into something finished. The case is only 12" tall, so I'll leave a little room in the grooves for expansion and just let it float. It's always really comforting when you get to the end of a process and there are four legitimately identical parts stacked up.

Makes things go a lot smoother later on. Next come the dadoes. Between the top and bottom drawers, Drawsr going to install web frames. There are "higher end" sorkbench to do this--using under workbench drawer dovetails, but since this is shop furniture I'm going with fast and simple. I took an offcut and glued it in place. This is on the inside of a under workbench drawer, so no-one's really gonna see it.

Note that I replaced the missing wood with a piece that had the same grain orientation. This is somewhat important--the panel might do funny stuff otherwise. Before leaving the project for a under workbench drawer days, I made sure everything was sitting on stickers with even airflow. Sometimes this turns out to be very important with freshly milled lumber--if you leave a board sitting flat on a table, it under workbench drawer often turn into a "smile" since the top will dry out faster than the bottom.

This can correct after a few days, but I know under workbench drawer this tree is a little bit "move-y"--probably because the wood was stored in an unconditioned space and my shop has HVAC, so I'm taking precautions accordingly.

This workbench was under workbench drawer to accept a sliding deadman, but due to the wide vise, I've not needed one. Unfortunately, that worknench means that the stretcher in front comes under workbench drawer a point. So I had to work out a way to securely mount a cabinet onto it. I decided to approach this by cutting a v-groove into the bottom of the case to catch the front stretcher, and making a rabbet in the back to catch the rear one.

First step is to mark out the positions of the groove and rabbet using the shape of the workbench. The case is going to be uneer together with dominoes, so time to start doing the layout. It says something about how fast the domino machine under workbench drawer when it makes under workbench drawer layout feel like the "hard" part. I used pencil marks for everything. It's fast and easy. Takes a little bit of practice to draw them all in the under workbench drawer places so that the right parts of the machine can reference off of them.

I used for each of the joints, depending on how much help I felt the panel would need being flat. The other hard under workbench drawer with dominoes is test fitting.

They tend to unedr VERY tight, both because they are borderline oversized and because they are very dry, and tend to suck moisture from the surrounding wood and expand. Some people keep "sanded" dominoes around for test fitting. That's nice and all, but there are 48 dominoes in this project, and that's a lot to fool around with. Another solution is to glue them in on one side and then forget about ever handling them again.

While it's hard to get enough grip to pull out a stuck domino with your fingers, it's easy when it's securely mated to a larger board.

Before I glue up the case, I want to build the web frames, since they'll help keep everything "locked in" and square during the glue up.

Then the main event. This glue-up went pretty smoothly. That's not always the case when doing dominoed casework like this. Sometimes the boards get a little wonky and it takes some work to get all of the dominoes in their mortises holding everything proper. Originally, I planned to leave the top and bottom a little bit proud, but after the glue-up I decided flush would come out better.

Time to knock off some end grain. Shop furniture only gets to be at grit, so this goes pretty quick. Thought we were done? No way. Still have 6 drawers to make. So I grabbed a few more footers from the garage. And got to milling. Again, no gorey details, but a bunch of nice regular looking drawer parts at the end. The logistics of cutting that sheet in half in my tiny shop are interesting.

It's hard to see in the picture, but there's a 2x4 beneath the cut line for under workbench drawer track saw to plunge into. With a little more work at the table saw, these turn into nice drawer bottoms. Square, but not at ddrawer size. For the past week, I've had all of the drawer parts stickered. Same reason as before. They stayed nice and flat.

For the drawer joinery, I'm trying a new to me method. The goal is to bang out 6 drawers in hours end-to-end. This should give you a sense of how the rabbets are laid out. Note that it's slightly different in workbenchh front and back, since I want a pretty front panel, but would rather not have any interruptions in the sides towards the back. I debated finishing this, or not, or painting wlrkbench for about a week.

Teak Oil was the easiest to reach under workbench drawer container, so it won. Nice thing about finishes like teak oil is you can slap under workbench drawer on, let it sit, wipe it dry, and if you aren't picky about the end result, just start using the damn thing.

I'm only doing one coat. This is shop furniture, and I'd rather be using it than fussing over it. You under workbench drawer uhder be signed in to leave a comment.

Don't have an account? Join now. Drawers For The Workbench blucz Feb 10, Out of the clamps this is what they look like. And into the clamps. Same procedure as before. Once the panels are at least nominally cleaned up, they can be ripped. Now, setting up the router to cut some grooves for the back panel. Through grooves on the sides. I don't cut a lot of dadoes. Decided to try it at under workbench drawer router table. Went pretty well.

Other than the big mess, that is. And the under workbench drawer dado that I cut in the right side. Decided wkrkbench use the workbench vise as a big workbencch to hold the repair in place while it dried. After being flushed up, the repair is good and the panel looks healthy again.

Then I cut the v-groove with a plunge router. Then marked out the rabbet. Then cut the rabbet using a wider bit and a few passes, also using a plunge router.

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