My grandson is at the age where he could use a desk. So I got a plan from Lee Valley . It is marked advanced so It'll test my skills. It will be made mostly of oak from church pews. Started plugging rabbets in pew ends. The legs will be cut out of that. Ripped up a seat for stiles.
The next step is the drawers. I will need to learn how to use this. It was given to me but with only one comb and no instructions. But a gift is a gift right? So not being to find the instructions for it I found some for one with an almost identical design.
After a long time trying to understand that jig I gave up and whipped out an old one I had made before. It ended up being 3/8 so I made a quickie 1/2 jig. the test cut was not bad so i put in the 2" drawer sides and fronts. the second was worse and the third was terrible. Back to the drawing board. I downloaded a couple of plans for different jigs and will build a proper one.
Turns out the blocking I had made in post #27 to clear the bifold doors didn't allow for the slides, just the drawers. It is exactly 1" too thick. I also noticed that my box wasn't square. So I made some tapered spacers and installed the drawers like that.
The first coat of oil gave it a nice warm tone. However, after three days it doesn't seem completely dry. i gave it a nice rubdown with brown paper and it is smoother, but doesn't "feel" dry. I ca.t upload the pictures. I keep getting an "upload failed". I'm doing exactly as before so I'm not fighting with it. Maybe later....
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