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  1. 31st December 2006, 09:20 AM #1
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    Default CD Cabinet -- WIP

    The pics here should be pretty much self-explanatory. I'm trying a new technique of text/image integration.

    Comments/criticisms welcome.

    The shelves will be slightly narrower than the width of a CD. This makes for easy extraction of CD, and was an idea I used a few years ago for a small set of shelves for CDs. It works well because the CDs can be stored compactly without the need for those space-wasting plastic dividers or fiddly springs.

    Dovetails were spaced purely by eye without measuring anything. I used a Veritas dovetail marker to get the angles.

    The white stuff in pic 3 is some superglue that I used to try to glue back a piece that was chipped out. It didn't stick, and left the white residue. I kept the chip to glue back in during assembly. I'm hoping the white stain will come off when I plane the dovetails after assembly.
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    Dovetails for the carcase frame...
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    Dovetails, continued.
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    Looking the goods. I like the idea of just making something and enjoying the journey.

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    The middle shelf will be joined to the carcase sides with tapered sliding dovetail joints, cut by hand.
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    Sawing the shoulders...
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    The non-tapered shoulder is cut square, and the tapered shoulder is undercut to match the dovetail cut in the mating piece...
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    Hmm...that groove is pretty narrow...

    (Did you spot the stuff-up yet?)
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    Finishing the grooves. Then start on the matching tail...

    A keen eye will notice a little woopsy in pic4, where a chip has broken off at the shoulder of a dovetail: this happens when you undercut the shoulders too severely.
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    How cool is a dovetail plane...
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    Plane -- test -- plane -- test ...
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    Start fiddling with the pieces for the doors. I stuffed up the dimensions somewhere: the floating panels won't be wide enough to sit in grooves in the frames. Not sure what to do about that yet: maybe add fillets to form grooves, instead of cutting them in the frames? What do you think?

    The colours are quite a bit different. Amazing that it's all 'blackwood'. Should I stain to try to get a more uniform colour, or treat the colour shifts as visual interest?

    One of those knots fell out, and the other is a dead knot. What should I do? Fill with resin? Use a plug?
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    Hi Zen

    Great WIP thread!!!!

    Could you tell me more about the saw you used? I know we had a small discussion about them a little while back, but I'm very interested in your thoughts and experience with it.

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    Nice work Zen,

    How long did you play with sketchup to be able to do your (1st) pic in the start of this thread?

    Any tips on learning/using sketchup.
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    Doughboy: thanks: that's what it's all about, for me.

    Wendy: Which saw? One is the Lie-Nielsen dovetail saw, the other is the ECE sliding dovetail saw. It works well: though the bolts that hold the blade could be better designed because the nuts spin in their holes. I get around it by wedging a narrow chisel blade in there. I also did some shaping of the handle to get it more comfortable.

    echnidna: I spent a few hours learning sketchup. It's a great tool, even the free version that I used. I'd recommend going through the introductory video tutorials:

    http://sketchup.google.com/tutorials.html

    Have Sketchup up and running so you can draw along and do variations as you watch.
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