Shoe Tidy: Episode 5
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Making, fitting and installing the tambour support guide track to maintain a seamless continuity is an important step for smooth running. Paul’s success will soon be your success as you work through these steps. The small attention to detail is important, and Paul has taken his time, so as not to miss out on any detail. After a dry run, Paul is ready for gluing up, and this time we have a few elements to consider, not the least of which is installing the tambour during glue-up.
What a wonderful project, making the tambour was just masterful. Thank you.
Why is it wrong to have the clamp facing the opposite way on the bottom rail? I’ve noticed you always have clamps facing the same way only the ones I use have a butterfly shaped handle limiting how close they can be.
Hi Kevin,
Paul says:
The reason for this is, on a multi dimensional project you might well have clamps protruding 18” either side of the project and reduce your workspace because of careless positioning especially as this is important in a limited space.
Kind Regards,
Izzy
Ok having been there before I understand. Thank you!
I felt the electricity buzzing in the air after you cracked the rail in the vice. For some reason I thought to it a lot. I think you was questioning yourself: “should this scene be cut ? Does it cast a bad shade on the workmanship”?.
Somewhere I read: “a wise person is one who made all the errors”. So if that was an error, you still need to learn something from woodworking Paul ;-).
I believe the fact you did not cut the scene puts you even more among the all of us. We keep learning from our errors. We might feel fully accomplished in a task, and yet there is still another “glitch” which puts us one more step below the top. We need to learn another lesson. Learning is no shame.
I keep going up the ladder and, with your guidance, I enjoy all the steps.
I have a request for Paul, could you please demonstrate how a through wedged tenon is made? I can’t seem to get the angled walls of my mortise to match the wedges and I always seem to have a mismatch or gaps…
Hi Nick,
Paul says:
You don’t say where you have the wedges in relation to the tenons because there are many different ways to wedge a tenon. Usually though, there is not matching because we simply make a saw kerf and drive the wedge into the kerf itself. This compresses both the fibres in the tenon and the wedges as the wedges are driven deeper.
Kind Regards,
Izzy
I was wondering if perhaps a half inch lath could be temporarily set into the groove of the tambour support piece while working on it in the vice, to relieve the pressure on the very thin remaining wood?
Izzy- could you hand a fresh cup of to Mr. Sellers and plead for him to fit into his busy schedule a poor man’s grooving plane? Because of his videos they are stupidly expensive, and although I am sure that they are hiding in dusty basements of retired cabinetmakers, they are just a wee bit of a challenge for a champion old school master tool aficionado. Maybe a 3/8” (or 10mm if you must) with a 3/8” inset for the first one. Then you could have a 1/4-1/4 for small boxes and on and on. Piece of 02, and why is Bob everyone’s Uncle? Never sorted that one. Thank you!
If only it was that easy- Hand Paul tea and he makes a tool. He doesn’t have any plans, at the moment to make a poor man’s grooving plane.
Amazon offers one @ $52.00
Search ” yaobao grooving plane”.
Craig