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  1. 18th May 2008, 02:35 AM #1
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    Can I say Bugger?

    This was not good timing. I have spent the past two weekends building a workshop cabinet with the intention of killing three birds with one stone.

    There is an article I have been asked to write for a magazine (can't say which yet), plus I have a couple of planes to review, plus I need new cabinets for the woodshop (which is being renovated). So I thought I would build the cabinet and use the construction to anchor the other articles.

    The pressure is on getting the magazine article completed as the deadline looms. I had essentially completed the cabinet - demonstrating dovetailed construction, sliding dovetails, stopped mortices, full- and stopped rebates, grooves in drawers, hinge mortices... all done with router planes (no, not a review), and today, Saturday, I was going to glue it all together. Sunday I am off to Cape Town for a week, and I then have about 10 days to finish the jarrah-and-glass doors, hang them, finish, and take final pictures, and complete the write up.

    But last night it rained. Hard. And the roof leaked (the second story office addition over the garage is not complete).. and everthing was wet when I went into the workshop this morning.

    There was a puddle on the end of the workbench, and the vise was already rusting.



    I dried the (pine) boards as much as I could. Some were already warping. I clamped everything as flat as I could. Most of my clamps are still packed away in the container, so I did as best as I could with what I had.





    There was no chance at glueing up anything as the wood had swelled up in the dovetails. The tails were a saw kerf wide. Now they were less than this ..



    Fortunately we have warm autumn sun, so I left the boards to dry, turning them around to get them to do so evenly. Perhaps it is a good thing I am away for a week as I will be forced to be patient. Hopefully the clamps will keep the boards flat (I have done ths once before) and it will turn out OK.

    So I had time to kill and made a few tools. I'll show these separately.

    Regards from Perth

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  3. 18th May 2008, 03:17 AM #2
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  4. 18th May 2008, 07:08 AM #3
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    Double Bugger! So when are the builders coming to finish the roof?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pat View Post
    Double Bugger! So when are the builders coming to finish the roof?
    I bet the builders say that they can't work in the rain!!!!

    That's a real bugger, Derek
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    strewth!! Talk about thin saw kerfs and Totally Gone!!! What a great example of how timber moves and what happens when it gets wet. What a shame it happened to the project you are working on

    I hope it all stays flat and is ready for you when get back to it Derek.

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    Hmmm... timber can do unpredictable things (well, mostly predictable I guess) once inundated with water as you well know, Derek - particularly pine. Hopefully it won't look too bad once dry and the clamps come off.

    My experiences from this sort of set-back have not always been good. However, if anyone can recover from this buggerment it will be you. Let us know how it turns out. Also a link to the finished project/article if you have time would be most appreciated.

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    Gee Derek, I'd be saying a lot more than Bugger!
    Good luck anyway
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    Spewin,
    I don't recall much rain friday night, you must be the other side of Dullsville.
    Here's hoping you can recover your work.
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    Oh thit!

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    Lucky none of your highly valued toys... errr hand planes got wet.
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    Hi Derek,

    Yep !!

    I empathise. I know the feeling. Similar thing happened to me a few years ago on the house but only furniture got wet, not a whole project in the making.

    Hope you can recover it.

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    And who says pine doesn't move much!!!

    Sorry about the problem... Enjoy your holiday/time away and it might have gone away/settled down by the time you get back!


    I once left a clock case I was working on in the car for a couple of hours... wasn't really hot but caused enough movement to break the glue line even with 5 dowels in it. In the end I had to cut it apart and reshape it and glue it all up again. It is amazing what a little bit of warmth/rain will do. After all the ancients used to split rocks by pouring water onto wooden wedges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by derekcohen View Post
    with the intention of killing three birds with one stone.
    Three birds with one stone.......you greedy thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by dazzler View Post
    Three birds with one stone.......you greedy thing


    Can be done ,but you gotta line em up proper like.



    Hope it all works out Derek.


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