Today the carcass is finished. Well nto really there is still sanding and oiling to do, but it now has all of its spines and the miters have all been clamped. i am not sure I will try and fill some of the larger cracks with a wood glue sawdust paste but we will see.
Today we:
1 clamped and glued a loose miter together
2 filled a large miter crack at one foot with a splinter
3 installed a missing spline (the old one fell out a few days ago). the spine replacement was hand wittled down with an x-acto for tickness and then cut with an exacto to rough size. Carefull attention was made to make sure the grain ened up perpendicular to the joint. I hope to be crfull when doing the final sizing after the glue dries to prevent break-out like we had on the last one.
Up next some of the wood is going on a trip to be sized!
Later tonight I hope to have time to oil the lid a third and final coat and to oil drawer #3 a second coat.
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