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Monday, July
21, 2008 Selecting Lumber
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9:00 am |
Orientation Meet at Shopsmith Academy, introductions,
review Tool Chest plans. |
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9:30 am |
Seminar
Project Design Nick explains the elements of
woodworking design and gives a brief history of American
furniture style. |
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10:15
am |
Alignment and Adjustment Class will check machines for
proper alignment and align them if needed. |
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11:00
am |
Travel
to Miller Lumber in Union City, IN. |
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12:00
noon |
Stop at
Maid Rite Hamburgers for Lunch. Marvel at the
chewing-gum-covered walls. |
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1:30 pm |
Arrive
at Miller Lumber, take tour of sawmill, drool over the
lumber, purchase some wood, promise to come back with a
trailer and lots of money. |
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4:30 pm
on |
Arrive
back at Shopsmith, unload lumber, mark boards. |
Tuesday,
July 22, 2008 Initial Cuts
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9:00 am |
Instruction Planing and Jointing How the
planer and the jointer work together
to create boards with perfectly square corners and flat
surfaces. |
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9:45 am |
Bust up
boards, joint and thickness lumber, cut parts to size. |
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12:00
noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Instruction Resawing -- How to set up the
band saw to resaw lumber to thickness. |
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2:15 on |
Continue to cut the parts of the tool chest and mark
them. |
Wednesday,
July 23, 2008 Joinery
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9:00 am |
Seminar
Wood Joinery How to choose among the many
different wood joints to make a project as strong and as
durable as possible. |
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9:45 am |
Instruction Making Dovetails How to rout
through dovetail joints on the router table. |
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10:30
am |
Instruction Routing Joinery Using the
overarm router to create stopped dadoes and grooves.
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11:15
am |
Instruction Door and Drawer Joinery Using the
table saw, dado cutter, tenoning jig, and
mortising accessory to cut the joinery for the
doors and drawers. |
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12:00
noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Cut
joinery in case and drawer parts. |
Thursday,
July 24, 2008 Marquetry and Surface Preparation
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9:00 am |
Instruction Marquetry Basics Using the
scroll saw to create patterns and pictures in wood
veneer, the gluing this veneer to back boards. |
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9:45 am |
Complete joinery, begin marquetry. |
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12:00
noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Continue cutting marquetry design, glue to backing
board. Prepare surfaces of wooden parts for assembly. |
Friday, July
25, 2008 Assembling the Case and Drawers
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9:00 am |
Instruction Assembling Drawers How to keep
drawers absolutely flat when assembling the parts. |
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9:45 am |
Assemble the drawers. Sand veneer marquetry on Sand
Flee. |
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12:00
noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Seminar
Glues and Adhesives |
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2:15 on |
Assemble case and drawer guides. Rout grooves in the
sides of drawers with overarm router or dado
cutter. |
Saturday,
July 26, 2008 Fitting the Drawers
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9:00 am |
Instruction Fitting the Drawers to the Case
Fine tuning the shape and size of the drawers with the
belt sander and Sand Flee. |
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9:45 am |
Begin
to fit drawer to case. |
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12:00
noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm
on |
Catch
up on the tasks you have not yet completed, begin to
finish sand the wooden parts of the clock, pack up the
tool chest and your tools. |
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Important
Note: Participants in this class will build a single tool
chest as they learn about woodworking and woodworking tools. We
have designed two versions of the tool chest one simple and
one more challenging. You must choose the version of the project
that best suits your talents and knowledge. If you choose the
simpler version, there is time to complete the project during
the course and you will most likely go home with a
ready-to-finish chest. The complex version can be started but
not completed in six days. In any case, you will glean the
know-how need to make both versions of the project during the
class.
Simple (left) and complex (right tool chests -- front view.
Simple (left) and complex (right tool chests -- back view.
Complex tool chest with front door and drawers open.
Complex Tool Chest plans, page 2.
Complex Tool Chest plans, page 3.
Small Tool Chest plans. |
