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I strive for good clean joint lines and nicely fitted dove tail joints. There is an old saying that goes, “if you work on a thing long enough trying to perfect it, it will break.” I have filled my kindling box more than once with firewood that was once a joint I tried to perfect.
Dan
20×20 is a nice size. My shop is 20 x 32. I wish I had made it 20×40 and had four times the windows. I think you will find that a table saw in the middle and the addition of a workbench will really fill the 20×20 with little room for anything else. Remember you need space in front and rear of a table saw.
Dan
Hi Matt,
Yes it is much larger than it appears in the picture. I made it out of white oak then rubbed with Danish Oil with a walnut coloring. Five applications of shellac then hand rubbed with soft wax. By the way, it is a whole lot heavier than it looks in the picture as well. Customer wanted in an up stairs room.Dan
Rick,
It is possible to re=tap the threads in the plane that are stripped. Then you just need to find a bolt that will fit the new threads. The cap iron screw is nothing special. all you have to do is be able to adjust it in order to make the cap iron work properly.
Dan
Kevin,
How thick are the top, sides and bottom of the piece. This will determine the size of the rabbet.
You really only need to leave 1/8″ or so on the outside to cover the back panel. The rest can be part of the rabbet to hold the back in place. If you are using solid wood for the back, remember wood movement will be a crucial consideration when you attach the back.Good luck with your project,
Dan- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Dan Roper.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Dan Roper.
Matthew,
WOW, you may be a novice at woodworking, but you are certainly not a novice and collecting tools! That is quite and array you listed. My advice, for what it is worth, is choose something simplistic that you can build with basic skill set. Many people try to build things far too complicated the first time…it works poorly…and they are then turned off to the process of learning. You start small and simple until you have muscle memory built into your tool use. I started woodworking 40 years ago and for a long time my greatest accomplishments were piles of sawdust. That sounds like a jest but it certainly is not. It was in creating those sawdust piles that I learned to work the wood. It takes time to learn and learn you will if you do not skip the early steps and build on knowledge one step at a time.
Where in Texas are you?Dan
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