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Time for some humble pie. I’ve been saying how I can make a good tight fitting box, nice dove tails. Well I can. My real confidence came from building the caracas for my wall hanging cabinet. All the cuts came out perfect, one, just one slightly off, but acceptable. I built a lot of boxes too that came out nice while I developed my hand eye cordanation. So I know I can do it.
So first time I post to this site, got lots of nice replies, felt encouraged, I blew my first attempt.
I only get about 2 to 4 hours a day to work, and not every day. I have a small 2′ x 2’table set up on my balcony. When the wind blows, which is every day since I live on the beach, I can’t work because it blows all the waste material. I got good neighbors, want to keep it that way. in two months I’m moving to a new place where I can build a real shop. But for now.
I spent one day squaring up my blank pieces, and they were “spot on” as Paul would say. The next day I laid out my dovetails and got a start on cutting them. finished the dovetails 1 day later and the pins the next day.
When I fitted them, they were all tight, but 4 tails (or pins) had horrible gaps, tight on the inside, open on the outside. Huge. 4 more tails, had very slight gaps, maybe if that was all it might have passed with a c- grade. As is I grade myself on this attempt at a solid F-
I will salvage the wood by cutting off the tails and pins and will just make a smaller box for something. No sense wasting good wood. But to flt the bag of coffee, I need to start over again.
I’ll get it right, done it before. But this sure was embarrassing. Granted you wouldn’t have even known if I didn’t say anything, but to me, that’s what an open forum if for.
This is why I like making boxes though. I mean, the support frame for a table is a box, the wall hanging cabinet is a box, drawers are a box. So much of what we make has a box or part of a box involved. Even a chess table frame.
So bear with me, give me a chance to get some more wood and start again. I’ll get it done and get it done right. Will post pictures when it is finished. Expected time frame for me, 2 weeks at 2 hours a day or so. I’m not as fast as a lot of you are.
Luckily for me, I’m retired, because if this had been an apprentist test, I’d be back on the street.
Hang in there. Gary