Thread: started planing

Currently in a love affair with my hand planes, this is a pleasure to see! What's the project?

a freestanding wine rack for a daughters birthday.
three shelves of 4 bottles with a worktop on it.
maybe a hanging wineglass rack if i havnt given up and bought her a Myer voucher by then.

Craig.

Best of luck with it, keep us posted!

Soo,
I have learned to not make the end pins too small especially in brittle wood.
Also learned that old jarrah fence rails are probably not the best material to try to learn dove tails with.
but I have done one shelf so far. can only get better.

jarrah wine shelf 1.jpg

bit of an update here.
these are all now moticed and tennoned into the legs.
started gluing up a top from the same stock.
this is becoming a heavy thing.
I am starting to enjoy planing. must be getting better at shaprening and setting the planes because its getting smoother and more predicable.
also digging out more planes and getting them going just because I can now.
I really need to make a mallet next, my cheap Stanley chisels have taken a poinding from my steel hammer but nothing has fallen off yet.
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So, its done.
I enjoy using handtools. I can see more of it in my future, just with some newer, softer wood hopefully.
Appart from major dimensioning cuts on the table saw this is all done with:
a modern tennon saw,
an old dovetail saw,
selection of modern hardware store chisels (with a nail hitting hammer)
a lot of old planes that I progressively pulled out and tuned up.
I had never done a dovetails or a mortise n tennon before.
and the bottle in the shots was empty before i started.

winerack small 4.jpgwinerack small 5.jpgwinerack small 6.jpgwinerack small 7.jpgwinerack small 8.jpg
winerack small 9.jpgwinerack in house.jpg