Tool Chest

 

 

 

Part 1: Case

Part 2: Lid

Part 3: Skirts

Part 4: Drawers and Runners

Part 5: Finishing 

Video and photo gallery 

Dovetail Drawers by Hand

Making Panels

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Ciao
Giuliano

Making a Traditional Wooden Plane

Frame and Panels, a way for building furnitures......

......offering many advantages:
1) Panels are thin and allow to lighten the structure and save wood

2) Frame can be jointed by tenon and mortice, a simple and sturdy way.
3) We can add mouldings and raised fields.
4) Panels are free of moving in the frame following the humidity changes.

But have a close view in the following video:

Making Panels

Squaring up a board

Rough boards need to be squared up before they can be used in our project. Here it is my method.

Scrub Plane

A simple tool for levelling rough boards and other jobs. It is a must in any wood shop.