Tuesday Nov 25 - Am

Today we tackled the large craks at the base. Shaving splinters of wood to fill the cracks. I am interested to come home tonight and see how they sand down. There are some other lesser cracks that I am not sure how I am goign to handle. i read lot about making a wood filler with sawdust and wood glue. Maybe today I will read up on that.

the other task at hand this morning was to trim the ends down on the third drawer. the rear dovtails had never been cut down . (see image of them extending). With an x-acto knife they were trimmed down and then sanded with 220, 400 and 600 grit. I am still torn about the sanding verses planing thing. I understand planing can give much better results but there is always the worry of ter out with me. I think for this project I am going to settle for sanding.

Monday nov 24 - The carcass

Ughh Cracks at lots of the mitered seems - and a spline is missing. Todays task: Make a new spine from sap wood. Fit it and glue it up. Problem is something is not lettign me clamp the box completely together at the corner and I don;t want to force it - this fae has allready broken once so i guess i will justhave to fill in the craks afterwards. Excitign news for the day - I found the otehr lower drawer rail!

Other activities today included a final Oil of drawr # 1, and a steel wool rub and oling #2 for drawer #2.

tomorrow i see if i can't install the rails for drawer #3. looming large over all of this is what to to with the top area. How many dividers and how to make them. That remains a big logostics and design challenge. we will see. Maybe tomorrow I will post some overall pictures of the box.

Sunday Nov 23 We begin again

Today I started working on the box again. It has been over a year now since I last left it. I found it both in better shape and worse shape then I expected. apparently in transport I lost on of the rails for the lowest drawer - this will take soem redoing asa I do not have very many precision tools to work with. Box it is always nice to see that one of the drawers fits fien and is all oiled up - and one of the felt pieces fits better then i thought. Today I will take on a small project and try to finish it - the other drawer.

the other drawer gets wider at the back then at the front, and the middle divider makes the middle of the drawer wider then the opening. I have decided that the slight tightness to the back of the drawer is a good thing - it will prevent the drawer from beign accidentally pulled out. I reduced the length of the middle piece by about 1/16 to 3/32 both the tennons and the overall length. now the drawer fits perfectly with the slight tighness at the back whcih means that I can oil it! time for coat # 1 for the second drawer.