Its been a very frustrating week with the cabinet, nothing I haven't overcome but it has just been trial and error and of course time.
The beginning of the week started with selecting the birds eye for the front on the drawers, I thought I'd just do one to see how it went.
After re sawing through the band saw and I've got it cut pretty mush to size allowing for a **** beading thickness of 3/32.
I then set up the table saw to cut the **** beading, even with the overhead blade guard you still need to be very careful with this job. I decided to cut all the strips in one go.
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To round tyhe edge off I user the router table and two push blocks, went really well , but again another job that needs all your attention, if you weant to finish the job with all your pinkies.
Here comes the really frustrating part of the week and thats the glue up of the **** beading. I wiped down the rosewood with acetone to dry it while the glue was going off, this worked initially but any little pressure and the beading would start to come off, this happened during the final rubbing down.
So this was back to square one, this time I used Gorilla glue, no problem here it stuck like the old proverbial.
By the way I have been discussing these problem with the other two woodkateers and they have been giving me advice.
There's me thinking that I might even get a draw front on this week, the Martin comes up with the idea that I should spline the corners of the **** beading with mapel.
I thought this a good idea as well, so the first thing on the agenda this morning was to knock up a Rob type spline jig. This one doesn't have the movable bit, kits been set solely for these draws, maybe later I'll do the modification.
A little bit of mapel, and a little glue and the splines are in.
So the week turned out alright in the end. The great thing is that I'm doing things I haven't done before and making the jigs as I go along.
I'll give you another update when all the draws have been completed.
