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finished glamour pic

I've been trying to get a hold of my sister Donna out in Indiana and nada. I'll past this on to my sisters Kam or Susan. I'm no longer going to populate the boneyard with projects.  

last night

Came back to the shop to clamp the front rail up. Decided to use it because I don't have any 4/4 cherry 6" wide. 

ready for layout

Thought about using a different wood for the drawer fronts. Walnut came up first but I don't have enough for two drawers. Pine is out of the question and I have no other 4/4 hardwood in my stash. It is looking like it is going to cherry after all.

hmm......

Still liquid and no 'foam' covering it this time. I stirred it and applied some to a scrap of pine. Covered well and seemed to be sticking. I wasn't expecting this to still be viable.

tenon layout

Initially I tried to do the layout with not one but 3 different mortise gauges. I felt like I didn't have thumbs - I couldn't get any of them to lay out equally from each edge. The tenon is a few frog hairs wider than a 1/4".

mortise layout

I took my time doing this layout. There is no bottom rail on the front and it is way too easy for me to screw things up. Got a layout triangle on the top that helped a lot with keeping me on the right track. Got it laid out first with light pencil marks, took a coffee break, and came back to check it was correct before finishing the layout.  I checked it again before I killed the lights for the day.

rail inset

This is the outside line for the rail putting the tenon centered on the leg.

got lucky

I was going to use a long 4/4 cherry board to get the two drawer fronts. While picking out that I saw these cherry scraps off to the left. The grain flows pretty good across the two so I'll be able to get a good match right to left.

hmm......

Got a snug fit on the ends and it is proud on the width. I'll plane them to fit when I do the 1/2 blind dovetails.

hall of famer at Cooperstown

Got a request to make two frames for these. One for each of the grandsons. They are related to hall of famer but I don't know how. My wife is the one who does the digging into dead people stuff. He was a great uncle to the grandson's paternal grandfather.  Either of these two frames is way too big for for a solo pic.

finally

Maria had told me bigger is better when matting a pic/photo. I started with a frame that would have a 2" border all around. It looked off to my eye so I started shrinking the frame. It took me 4 cuts before I got this. I'll whack out these two and bring them when I go to Maria's to check on two frame jobs I gave her last month.

accidental woodworker