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| Bottom with dadoes |
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| Top with dadoes |
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| Fitting the bottom and sides together. The two backs will slide into these slots. |
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| Close up of the fit, things are lining up nicely. |
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| Bottom, sides and back put together to check fitting |
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| Added top and middle shelf, still needs a little trimming but fits together pretty well |
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| Preparing to cut a deep groove in the 1x3 that will be the top piece of the removable back |
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| Two hours later, finished. |
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| The endless groove, kinda reminds me of a scene from the Labyrinth |
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| The removable back fit together with the top piece |
So far I'm really happy with how everything is turning out. The cool thing about all these dadoes is that I could assemble the thing without actually gluing it together or using any clamps to see how it fits. I still have a ton of little stuff to do that will probably take a ridiculous amount of time but oh well, that seems to be the story so far. I'll post a second set of pictures after all that little stuff is done.
Happy Thanksgiving!
thats quite a groove! did you cut that on lots of successive passes with a router?
ReplyDeletei have an older General tablesaw. I replaced my smaller portable Rigid tablesaw that i had before. those are a good option for someone who needs the portality but otherwise i really enjoy a heavier, bigger tablesaw. i use it for dados, mitred edges, mitred crosscuts, and all my ripping. but apparently, its also possible to do all these things with a router, seems like i could learn a few things!
The groove is about 1 1/2" deep and I routed (usually) 3/16" in each pass. In addition, you can kind of see in the pictures, the clamps get in the path of the router so I had to route between the two clamps then re-position the clamps to finish. It took a while. So yeah, the router is really versatile but most things have to be done in multiple passes so having a table saw would have really cut down the time it took to do a lot of this stuff.
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