So the kid wanted a piece of furniture for her room, to hold the record
player in a very specific place, of a particular size and to hold albums
and art supplies
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So she took a tape measure to the space , made a measured drawing and
handed it off to her dad, who with a stack of wide pine boards from the
last closet remodel, got to work.  A half formed plan in my head was for
rabbetted corner joints, and a rabbet for a plywood back.
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Wide boards, but not 13 inches wide. Edge joined and glued up in early
November
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Set up the shooting board, put an edge on the 6C (groove soled plane for
subduing medium  sized dogs), ran one edge of each board nice and square.
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Really understand the need for an offset handle on a shooting board plane,
you can see the bloody knuckle in the vid, from the sharp edge of the
melamine track the plane slides on.
Edges square, joinery test done, used the neaderbuddy (b@n...@w) to cut off
the excess and squared up the other ends of the boards  by  late November
and thought of making this a Christmas present.
On to the corner joints.  Sargent 79 rabbet plane was one of my first joint
making planes, pulled it from the toolchest, found the fence, sharpened up
the nicker, (after dropping it twice) and blasted thru the end grain over
the Thanksgiving weekend.  To avoid blowing out the end grain, I screwed a
sacrifical stick to the workbench that the boards butted up against, and
kept shifting it forward for each new rabbett, leaving an odd series of
screwholes in the bench, need to fill those.
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My rabbetting technique was a little iffy, not as square and straight as
hoped, but another 79 plane, this time a Stanley side rabbet plane, made
fun, quick work of getting rabbets deep enough. Touch up with a 90
cabinetmakers rabbet plane brought everything square.
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By December 24th I was cutting the rabbetts for the plywood back in the
long grain of the boards.  So much for a Christmas present. Also,
un-noticed duriing the glue up to make the boards wide enough were a couple
of knots right where I needed the rabbet.
This was fun (please note sarcasm!) Scored the joint with the nicker on the
plane, then again with a knife, and touching up the iron on the Sargent,
wetting down the knots with water and alcohol and managed to cut the
rabbets with less drama than expected.
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Glue up went quickly, some finish nails reinforced the joints, then planed
the sides and the endgrain to bring everything into line. More nails and
glue secured the plywood back and then paint.  Pebble White to match the
molding in the kids room, leaving the bottom (on the carpet) and the
interior bare wood. Can't have those albums sticking.
Finished shot again.  Fun to do, simple, straightforward, exactly what the
kid wanted in terms of size and function.
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At several points along the way, the thought of a tailed demon, spinning
along at ear splitting speeds  and putting a shower of static charged dust
on every surface and I'd have been long done by now.  Where's the fun in
that?

Michael