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I’ve managed to get some work done on my cabinet this week. The main cabinet carcass is glued up and now I am in the process of building the door frames and panels. The glue up of the cabinet body did not go well. I was quite proud of the fact that the dovetails I cut on the frame were very tight but this proved to be a nightmare when trying to glue them. Two corners locked up before I was able to get them closed and in the process of trying to snug them up a few of the pins broke in two. So now I have to go back and make some wedges to fit them. Lesson learned, you can’t lolly gag around when glueing up and don’t make joints too tight. Do our modern glues set too fast ? All this plus the fact that in the process of gluing somehow I managed to clamp the thing out of square so it took me a while to unclamp the thing trying to figure out how this happened, this with the glue doing its thing I was not a happy boy. lol. So I installed the cabinet back boards which I knew to be square then reclamped and this helped somewhat. I am perplexed as I cannot figure this out.
Drawer carcass and runners was made of 1/2 inch oak and this was also a bit of a pain. The smallest chisel I have is 1/2 inch so I was unable to mortise and tenon the joints and so I dug through my rubbermaid tubs in search of my dowel centerer thingamabob. Yes I used dowels…It went reasonably well but now I realise I need a full set of chisels instead of just a 1/2 and 1 inch.
Door frames and panels and lastly the drawers are all that need to be finished up. Its gone well despite some hickups so far.