hey there and welcome to episode 10 of the tool chest show things are kinda exciting because we'regoing to be finishing up this project today on this show, the tool chest showwill be completed so very exciting stuff. let's seewhere were we,
essential woodworking tools paul sellers, last time we were here we did ourdovetails and we got pretty much prepared for theglue up on the tray i went ahead and made up the wooden square plugs for the squareholes, you remember we had square holes
and it's easier to actually plugthem after the glue up but i had the time to do itand i thought i would just get them out of the way so they're ready and we're good to go there also while wewere away i glued of our bottom panel, i used myhide glue as usual and when it was dry, i used my cabinet scraper to make it smooth and then i put this rabbet edge around here so that it will fit into the groove thatruns along the bottom of our tray
so, we're all set, also i made thesethings for clamping these things i made just with someblue tape and some scraps and they're gonna push against ourdovetails and just help with the clamping a little bit to direct the clamping pressure towhere we want it to be so, i think we're all set, i've got my glue my brush and we're all ready to go what i need is my glasses, okay very stressful this stuff i don't like that brush
the glue is made from horse hide, have you hadyour horsehide today? okay now that looks good there this has to go in just so check here, wow it's right on, okay, yes i'm happy, that looks good okay, i think that's got it
it's always stressful but i think we got through with it it looks pretty good, it's good and squareand we're just going to let it dry. and we're back, it has been a day and this is good and dry and it turned out very well, it's square and it sits flat on the table top so iknow it's in the same plane so we're in good shape here, this bottompanel before i glued it i gave it acoat of danish oil because it's easier to do it before theglue up than it is afterward, so everything is looking good,it's on to the dovetails, we need to trim
these up a little bit and i'll explain what i mean, when youmake a box, typically when you set your baseline like we did here we scribe those baselines you make them a little bit greater thanthe thickness of your material, and what that means is that when you put the joint together, theends are a little bit proud of the sides,they stick out just a little bit, i'm talking about one hundredth of an inch, a veryvery small amount
now can you see them here they'reactually proud of the face of this drawer and what we're gonna do is now that is good and dry, we're going to takea good sharp plane and plane everything flush. by havingthem slightly proud you can plane everything to the same exact level, that's why we dothat now on a drawer, and this is basically adrawer a different approach has to be taken,they sit inside their case and are very precisely fitted
they slide back and forth this way. ifthere is too much play this way in the drawer, it can jam as it's moving forward and backward, sothis length, these pieces, are very precisely cut to fit inside the tool chest, if i makethem proud and then plane them off, then i shorten the length of my trayby a small amount and that's not what i want so in that case, i make my baselines alittle bit less than the thickness and what you wind up with is right here. you can see this board's endsof these dovetails
are actually recessed, they're shy of the face of this board here and they'll need to be planed flush to match the length of these dovetails so a little complicated, sorryabout that, but i need to just mention that for those of you who care, anyway, let'sget started i'm going to be using my rabbet block plane and you can tell it's a rabbet planebecause the blade goes all the way across the bottom
and this is so the plane can getinside the corners of the rabbets, now i don't need that feature on this plane,what i do need is that this happens to be the only low angle plane that i have, this blade isbedded at a lower angle and it works better on end grain. that'swhy i'm using this plane okay let's give it a try. alright so there we go know it's on to the ends now i'm going to use a different
plane for this job because i'm planingthis grain here and i think my stanley bench plane number four in this casewill be best for this kind of thing so let's give it a try i have to be careful planing the edge of this because end grain will crumble and snap off as the blade goes across it, so i have toget very close and then i'm gonna come in from theother side that breaking off is called "spelching"
great word, spelching, you know if it's spelching, it's somethingyou don't want. i don't want spelching right now. okay now i'll come from the other side because i'm really close perfect. i'm happy. okay there you have it looks great. the next step is going to be putting little, can i lower this down, are you following me here? little pieces of wood glued to theinside of the tray
that go right here and one right here and we'llcut them to length and that way we have something to liftthe tray up with, i did this on a first tray. you can see here little pieces of wood glued in and this way you can lift it out of the case like that. so, that's the next step. whenever you are doing something like this you really don't need to measure in here and then transfer your measurement to the board you're cuttingit's always best to hold it in place
and simply mark it right in place it'smuch more accurate that way now i'll be using my zona saw the same saw i used for making thedovetails and it comes with a little miter box, an aluminum miter box so this will allow me to make a nicestraight cut and it has little lip on the bottom herewhich will let me move it up against the table here and this is just a little piece of wood toprotect my saw blade so now all i have to do is put my saw in place
and cut. there you go let's try it on for size here it's a little snug but it does fit and then what i'm going to dohere is just hold it in place and mark where they go with a pencil so that i know where to paint my glue so, i'm gonna let this dry and then inthe meantime what i'm going to do is between now and now the next time we gettogether i'm going to ease the edges with the block plane, i'mgonna sand it
i'm gonna give it a couple coats ofdanish oil, which means that when we come back this will be finished and we can put thewhole thing together so we're getting there, see you next time. did i say, see you next time, i meant this time, this show, it's been acouple days and i sanded the tray and i put acouple coats of danish oil and so let's have a lookat it here looks just like the other one and ireally like the way the finish brings out the dovetails and itreally sort of gets the contrast going here and you canreally see the wood grain so i really like the way it looks
and here's the first one they match they look pretty nice let's try on for size they go there looks great, i'm happy with it can you picture this on some futureepisode of antiques roadshow, with some experttrying to date when this was actually made. there'snothing really about this that says 20th century, let alone 21st century
let's have a look at it here. hand-cut dovetails, mortise and tenon construction with thelid, a raised panel done with a plane, and same with the molding this is alldone with a molding plane, no machines used in the construction atall let's look at the inside and hardware,first of all before we get to the inside look at this outside, a handle that's a two piece casting could have been hundreds of years old, chain here, nothing new about that
now these hinges are stamped steel hinges and they were making those at the end of the eighteen hundreds. theindustrial revolution was in full swing and mass-producing hinges just like thiswas a being done back then. let's see the screws, something interestingabout the screws these screws have points like they always do the machine to make pointed screws wasinvented in 1849 up until then screws had flat ends, so we know thatthis was made at least
after 1849 so there's a clue to dating it. this half mortise lock, the mechanismhere is the same as mechanisms were backin the eighteenth century so these go back a couple hundred years,but i'm sure a lock expert would be able to see this as being of a more recent manufacture, but it'spretty much eighteen hundreds here so, that's that. it's been a lot of fun, we started the show in december of last year right around christmas time and here weare november first
so ten months, let's say, we've taken our good old time to get here but it's been a lot of fun and we'vetouched on a number of topics let's talk about them a little bit, wetalked about hide glue, liquid hide glue versus the regularhide glue and yellow glue, we talked about cutnails versus wire nails we talk about antiquing hardware withgun bluing and removing the zinc and we talked about milk paint and thefrench neanderthals who used milk paint all those years ago with their craft projects. we made a workbench
we made a work bench just like this one, and we also got a trip over to joaneen'sworkshop to see her and see what she was up toand do some enameling, so it's been a a long road but it's beena fun journey and it's really all about the journeyisn't it? so, the big question is where to fromhere? the tool chest is completed so i'm goingto have to think another project i've decided i really want to keep theshow going on so i'm not sure what that's going to bebut
now we are going to do believe it or not. a tool chest aftershow and we're going to talk more about where to from here and i'm also gonna throw in some thingsthat i wanted to to cover in previous shows but never gotaround to doing it so it will be a mix of things and it should be a bit of fun so anyway and that's what we'll be doingnext time so tune in again and i'm i think we're pretty much done my sister linda send me an email and shesaid when you're finished with the tool chest you're gonna have to
have a champagne toast to celebrate so, what we did, what, the camera person we're just going to keep right on goingtill she calls for the cut okay so anyway, not sure what that was about but but we're just going on here okay fine, and here is your champagne and here's to the successful tool chest
and i'm looking forward to seeing younext time hey, i am really digging the new music, where did that come from? oh yeah, oh yeah, cool stuff, anyway see you guysnext time how did you get roped into this is what i want to know.
