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I am useing the Dow'l Simp'l jig.  It seam to work quite good.  Clamp it down with the point on the line I made Drill the holes with the depth colar set to not go through the face frame. I am using a regular twist bit that I had because the brad point bit that came with the kit wouldn't even drill 1 hole (quite unhappy about that). Nice 5/16" dowel hole.  I made all the holes in the face frame first to keep them all the same depth.
Now clamp the jig on the side of the body, and reset the depth collar to drill deep enough to accept the rest of the dowel. Put the dowels in. All the dowel layed in the carcas.
Then test fit the face frame on the carcas.  The fit is near perfect, just a light sanding with bring them perfectly flush.  Its a lot closer then if I tried to do it without the dowels. Clamp and glue one side. Since it used all my clamps I had to wait an hour or so to do the other side.  Good time to go eat dinner.
Now the other side is all clamped up. With the 2 side face frames in I can cross cut the horizontal members of the face frame to exact size.  I always leave them a little long when milling so the will make a perfect fit on installation. After the cut, its a perfect fit.   I put in 3 dowels on this piece.
Then clamp and glued it on.   I doweled the middle cross member and the kick plate.  After thinking for a little while I decided I should probably have mortise and tenon joints on the splitter that runs vertically in the middle of the cabinet from the kickplate to the middle cross member. 
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06/04/2007Finished Bookcase Pictures added
04/30/2007Finished Cradle Page added for Baby Cradle
04/30/2007Page 6 updated for Baby Cradle
04/30/2007Comment section added
04/29/2007Cherry Baby Cradle Finished!
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07/14/2007DavidWhat I ended up using was a couple rollerblade bearings, steel rod and some rare earth magnets. In the Cradle side I drilled a hole with a forsner bit the right size for the outer diameter of the bearing. then without moving anything I changed the bit to the size of the rare earth magnet (3/8 or 1/2 i forget which) I then glued the magnet into the hole. On the mating tower I drilled a hole to fit the steel rod (3/8” I think). I did some testing to make sure the rods were long enough so that when assembled you couldn’t pull out the rods without unbolting to towers from the bottom streatcher. I glued the rods in the tower side and the magnet would pull it though the bearing and hold it tight. I also put 2 nylon washers in between to prevent the towers from rubbing on the sides of the cradle.
07/14/2007RonI'm going to attempt a similar cradle for my sister, how do you join the cradle to the base for the pivots?
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