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After the glue set for a day it was now time to flatten it all out. I couldn't fit
this through the thickness planer so I had to do it by had. I had my #5 Jack
plane. I took the bordes down so they were all the same thickness and there
were no more ridges between the boards. |
I also used my Mills Falls Low Angle Block plane that I just finished cleaning up
here. (my only 2 planes right now) |
The resulting shavings from the two doors. |
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I then took my sander to take out any planing marks. |
Now I took the end boards ad used the router and 1/4" bit to rout the long grove
for the tongue and grove. |
Resulting groves. |
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Now cut the tongues. Due to an over site on my part (I put the length of the
board minus the tongues into my cutlist instead of full length with the tongues).
I had an extra 1/4" of length on the rough size so I made the tongues 1/4" long
which shortened the inner door parts 1/4". I made this up by keeping the top
and bottom a little wider (since I always cut them bigger in rough form). |
Tongues cut. |
The joint is going to be like a blind tongue and grove or Mortise and Tennon joint.
So i cut the ends off the tongue with the router (just raising it up and keeping
the same fence setting). |
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Used my chisels to square up the tennon. |
Next I took the top and bottom boards to my drill press with it's mortising attachment
to square up the ends of the hole and lengthening them to the desidered legnth.
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I made the groves longer than the tongues to allow for expansion. |
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Used the block plane to chamfer the edge to make it easer to assemble. |
Test fit. |
And glue up. I just glued the center 1-2" of the center panel to the outsides.
This will allow the center panel to expand and not break the top and bottom boards.
I think i may add a few brads at the outsides throught he tongues to help hold it
together but allow them to flex a little. |
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