Sellers Home Wardrobe: Episode 1
Posted 14 June 2023
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This episode walks you through preparing the wood for the mortise and tenon framed joinery, taking it from the rough to the finished sizes. Following on, Paul employs an unusual step-by-step process for developing the corner joints, which will be used for all of the frames we will make for the wardrobe project. You will be more likely to see these on commercial projects, and Paul wanted to show you that we can do the same using hand methods, or hand tools accompanied by the bandsaw should you prefer. These techniques are unusual in hand tool woodworking, but we didn’t want them to be exclusive as even cutting them completely by hand is still quicker than full mortise and tenoning.
That is a withering amount of progress made in this opening video. Please tell me you didn’t get that all done in one day.
Of course he did !!!! But that’s nothing for Paul Sellers, he is a supernatural man !!!!
Just kidding… or am I ?
Love to see the fully manual stock prep! Unfortunately I haven’t space for a bandsaw or tablesaw right now, so this is currently what I do for each project. I’m still fairly bad at this process and quite slow, so nice to see how a master does it and pick up some tricks! I mostly started doing this out of necessity, but I’m coming to really love the process.
Thanks Paul. For making a scale drawing, are there any tricks that make it easier to do? Is there a special ruler you use? Is there a certain ratio size that works well for most furniture drawings? I don’t see much on this topic as compared to other woodworking topics.
hi Joe,
get an archtectural scale ruler and quadrule (1/4 in) graph paper. i mainly use 1/4 in = 1 foot (12 in), but the scale ruler allows for multiple scale choices. i’m sure that there are metric scale rulers and quadrule paper. a drafting board and triangles are also helpful (but not required)
a high school drafting textbook (might be scarce these days) is also quite useful for drawing lessons.
good luck
Barry
make that 1/4 inch = 1 inch, 1/4 inch=1 foot is for much bigger projects!
Barry
Thanks Barry for the info. I was also poking around on the internet. Found one town over a local city college that teaches a non-computer based drafting class. Plan to take it. The also offer mill and lathe machine classes. Cost is either free or minimal (cost of a nice dinner out with the wife = semster’s cost for the class).