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17th July 2020, 06:13 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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A box for my Record 050 wip
Well, my 050 came in it's original box with the instructions and everything but the box was in bad shape so I thought I should make a new one.
I have never made this sort of box before so it is a learning process for me with a few mistakes along the way.
I have about 100 linear meters of these old exposed roof beams that are beautiful and straight, not sure of the wood though. Happy to be enlightened.
1.Resaw jig. I sawed a piece into three boards a meter long and then cleaned them up with my 6, then ran an 1/8th slot down each side with the 050 for the base and lid.
2. I tried cutting the mitres on the tablesaw but couldn't get a perfect cut, so then I tried a 45degree router bit and had similar issues. So I made a quick mitre shooting board and bingo. Perfect 45 degree mitres.
3. Taped up ready to fit the base.
4. Made up the base and used the 050 to put a rabbet around the edge then glued up.
5. Made up a quick spline guide to add splines to the corners.
6. Made up some jarrah splines and glue them in.
7.Made up the lid, the pulled out a piece of sheok to make a pull/stiffener for the lid to try and reduce any bowing.
8. Carving up the sheoak with files to give it a nicer look.
That's it gor now.
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17th July 2020, 08:14 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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A little more work before the wife called me inside.
1. The splines trimmed up
2. A test fit of the plane and parts.
I have started making the internal supports to hold everything in place. Hopefully finish it up tomorrow.
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18th July 2020, 12:34 AM #3
Looking great! Need to do the same for a few of my joinery planes but trying to decide between boxes or inserts for a larger carcass. Feels like I'm leaning towards a proper tool chest at this point, too many tools stacked up on shelves.
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18th July 2020, 01:31 AM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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I’ve got an old wardrobe I use as my tool chest, with places for the planes but a couple like this one need boxes to hold all the parts. In my mind anyway. I’ll put up a pic of the wardrobe.
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18th July 2020, 12:40 PM #5
Just e-mailed to me via the Valley newsletter; might provide a bit of inspiration: How to Build a 48 Drawer Tool Chest - Lee Valley Tools
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18th July 2020, 01:39 PM #6
Thanks Tiff!
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18th July 2020, 02:46 PM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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Mine coming along slowly. Picked up a second hand wardrobe quite cheap.
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18th July 2020, 06:24 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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More or less done except a little sanding and finishing.
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19th July 2020, 09:55 AM #9
Yowie, it'll be interesting to see how the mitred corners hold up over time. Maybe it would be over-engineering, but I would have used finger joints or dovetails for a heavy-ish box that's going to get a bit of knocking about over the coming years. But maybe you're a more careful person than I am!
Top marks for making your box right away, there are far too many ploughs & combination planes in the world missing their vital bits. But the shape of these things means you end up with a lot of 'wasted' space in a box, and space is at an absolute premium in my tool cupboard. I manged to fit my router plane with its extra blades & Allen key for disassembling the 1/2" blade into a minimal case & find a spot to squeeze it into, but my 78 defeated me, I just don't have room anywhere for a box big enough to hold it & its few extra bits. I had to put the fence & depth-stop (which I rarely use) in a separate little compartment. If I'm not around when my tools get passed-on to new owners (which is highly likely, of course ), there's a fair chance another 78 will be cast naked into the world.
The extra parts already had a very narrow escape from the tip. The plane was amongst FIL's shed stuph (it had actually belonged to his father). I saw the bare plane in a box of all-sorts (in remarkably good order), and assumed the rest had long since gone their separate ways. Then I tipped out a tin of bits & bobs to see if there was anything useful in it, & recognised the fence rod amongst the nuts & bolts and other junk. That sent me on a quest & I eventually found all of the parts. If SIL, who is a fierce cleaner-upper, had had her way, all of the boxes the bits were in would've been dumped in the skip without so much as a glance at their contents!
With luck, someone who knows that there should be some extra bits for the 78 will sniff them out & the old thing may live into another generation with all of its parts. So try to keep all your bits together, fellas.....
Cheers,IW
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19th July 2020, 02:16 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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Yes, maybe they aren’t he right joint. I did think about finger joints but didn’t like he aesthetics. We’ll see I guess.
I have an old 45 I acquired that is missing the two rods, so I know what you mean. I might get some machined up. I’ll make up a box for that at some stage - it is currently residing in the old 050 box.The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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19th July 2020, 02:25 PM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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Might make one like this next for my routers. Image found by google.
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19th July 2020, 06:53 PM #12
That's nifty, two routers & their blades & guides all squeezed into the one box.
I made myself a wooden-bodied router after the Derek Cohen style, which fitted very compactly in a quickly-made "bandsawn box": Box OWT.jpg
But then I remade the router body & fitted it with an adjuster, which meant it would not fit in the box unless I removed the adjuster post each time. 1 a.jpg
So I made a new box, which is far less compact, but fits into the last remaining space on my plane-storage shelves: 1 b.jpg 1 c.jpg
As you can see, there's a lot of wasted space in the new box, but I haven't figured out how to make it more compact - perhaps I should fill in the extra space with a baby model, like the box you posted. The simple solution to my storage problems would be to cull my plane collection, but that's just too hard!
Cheers,IW
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19th July 2020, 09:23 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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There will be plenty of people (like me) interested in helping cull your collection...
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22nd July 2020, 01:02 PM #14SENIOR MEMBER
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And finished. I just used minmax clear gloss wipe on poly.
Thanks for looking.
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