Moving along with fabrication of the low cherry tansu. After cutting the hidden mitered dovetails on the corners of the main cabinet, I started working on the interior partitions, shelves, and drawer dividers along with their respective mortise and tenon joinery. Overall the joinery for the interior components is very similar to the two upper… Read More »Low Cherry Tansu – 2 The post Low Cherry Tansu – 2 appeared first on Big Sand Woodworking.| Big Sand Woodworking
Hidden Mitered Dovetails The last cabinet for the series of modular tansu is the low cherry cabinet, which is also the biggest and most complicated of the bunch. The cabinet is nearly 6 1/2′ long (1980m), and 30″ tall (765 mm) with the base. The original cabinet that I built that inspired this one was… Read More »Cherry Low Cabinet – 1 The post Cherry Low Cabinet – 1 appeared first on Big Sand Woodworking.| Big Sand Woodworking
Happy (very belated) New Year everyone. It’s been a few weeks since my last post on the keyaki tabi-dansu, and I’m long overdue to share an update. A lot of progress has been made over the past few weeks, and I’m moving as fast as I can to get these three cabinets done before the… Read More »Keyaki and Chestnut Tabi-dansu 4 The post Keyaki and Chestnut Tabi-dansu 4 appeared first on Big Sand Woodworking.| Big Sand Woodworking
Before finishing assembly of the keyaki tabi-dansu, there were a few other details to take care of. Mainly a pair of grooves in the top and bottom panels which will house the door, as well as a rabbet on the back edge of all panels that will hold the cabinet back. This time I decided… Read More »Keyaki Tabi-dansu 3 The post Keyaki Tabi-dansu 3 appeared first on Big Sand Woodworking.| Big Sand Woodworking
Over the years, I’ve done my share of beam work, but I didn’t get a taste of real timber framing until a few years ago, during the recession, when a friend and I salvaged an old barn—there wasn’t much work around and the opportunity presented itself. Even though the barn had outlived its useful days... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
This article is reprinted posthumously. In my shop, I use dado blades a lot. So much so that I keep one table saw as a dedicated unit with dado blades in it all the time. I find that, for one cutter, the number of operations I can complete is worth the money and floor space... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
Most finish work is a matter of repetition. And if you don’t come up with a good system for all that repetition, you’ll never make any real money. I had one job where we had to glue up almost 100 panels made from a mixture of recycled beech and maple. We wanted to biscuit all... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry