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1st October 2005, 02:00 AM #16
Wow thats some fancy tool cabinet... my one and only plane still sits in its original cardboard box from the seventys!
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1st October 2005, 02:35 PM #17
Nice looking tool cabinets.
It looks better them the 60 year old 1/2 playwood kitchen cabinets with 20 coats for white paint. One day I make some nice cabbinets for some tools, and maybe a better kitchenJunkBoy999
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getting the edges straight is ok, but clamping causes bowing or, worse, cracking: any ideas or suggestions?
BTW, really like the cabinet
Mark
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1st October 2005, 08:06 PM #19
Thanks Derek And Mark!
I've been done some more Googling, and have found that a number of folk have recommended:
1. Get the edges straight (perhaps with a very slight hollow in the centre)
2. Some have suggested a slight chamfer edge - but I'm not convinced that this would work
3. Use a vacuum bag to pull the veneer down flat onto its supporting base
I'm still not really clear how one might apply sufficient lateral pressure to bring the edges firmly together without bowing or cracking. I sippose one possible answer may be to make the re-sawn "slices", say 4mm thick so that they're a bit more rigid, then when glued up and dry, either run through a thicknesser or drum sander - or go for it with a No8, No6 and Smoother.
I believe that this might be a solution (albeit a wasteful one), as in making a jewellery box today, I also used some of the cypress for the lid, albeit just two pieces, edged glued: no worries at all - just resawed a couple of slices, marked that wrt grain, etc, jointed then and then glued. When dry, smoothed the two surfaces and voila!
Thanks for all the nice comments!
Cheers!
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