A lot of progress today. With the drawer cabinets fully assembled and glue dried, it’s time to install the drawer slides. At first I was manually measuring each center line. I quickly realized how long that would take, and that…
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Desk Drawers – Part 3
Assembled the sides using pocket hole screws and stretchers. The stretcher wood is reclaimed from crates and has a lot of dirt and writing on it. Most of it will sand off, but it’s all on the inside and won’t…
Desk Drawers – Part 2
Cut the MDF inserts for the panels. Glued in place, no fasteners used. And clamps. Lots of clamps. That’s about it for today, way too hot in the garage…
Desk Drawers – Part 1
Next project is a set of drawers that will match the two desks that I created previously. The design will be pine and MDF, with 3/4 extension drawers and lockable casters. A drawing will be available. Today, I started with the side…
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A Rediscovered Tool: Bench Clamp
Quite some time ago I was at a home show at Pheasant Run Resort and there wan an infomercial style booth set up where a guy was selling a bench clamp. I got caught up in the sales pitch and…