I still need to make a stand for my 20 inch bandsaw
and my 14 inch bandsaw, and I figure while I'm at it,
I could also make another cabinet like these two,
which are very handy for pantorouters and slot mortisers.
So, I bought a whole bunch of two by fours
and I cut these to pieces the right length on my table saw.
After that, I flattened one edge, and one face,
of each one, on my jointer.
And, then I ran them through the thickness planer
to do the other face.
It turns out I had the planer and the dust collector
plugged into the same circuit. I kind of realized that
when this happened.
And, with so many pieces, I figured the thickness planer
was the best way to get them to the right width.
Except I forgot to turn on the dust collector,
so the hose popped off and made a huge mess.
Here's the front and back faces for my three stands
Al squared up. Next thing I need to do is
cut box joints in the end of them.
I'm gonna cut these joints with my screw advance box joint jig
and I'm just experimenting with directing more of the dust
from the saw blade into the saw.
So, I've got this block with a slot in it
to keep the dust from going on either side,
which means it comes out the back.
And, right here I've got this block that also has a slot in it
so that when I push the jig past the blade,
the dust has to go down into the saw instead of coming out here.
I am using my usual method of making two cuts
to hog out each quarter inch slot with the second cut
made on the backstroke.
Well, that block and this block,
help, in terms of keeping the dust inside the saw,
but it's not 100% effective.
There's still quite a bit of dust that came out.
I also screwed up a little bit. The slots are too narrow
so that these ones don't really fit at all.
And rather than make new pieces, I just moved the piece of tape
that marks my second cut for these pieces,
so these ones have slightly wider slots,
so these will actually fit together.
I also cut the thing that's a little bit too short,
but it's only a tool stand, so whatever.
I got my six frames for the three stands all joined up.
And, the next thing I need to do is to join in some pieces
like this.
I've just cut all of the mortises in this corner,
and to do this corner, I need to change my set-up
to put the stop on this side and the clamp on the other side.
Now, I set it up with this block to set the distance
from the rightmost extent to the stop.
So, for the other side, I'm just gonna use that same block.
Now, this clamp, placed in a hole, is not gonna stay put.
So, I made this block here, and I slide that
underneath the clamp, and that holds it in place.
And, I've just discovered another trick.
Whenever I bump this clamp,
it falls all the way down, but if I put a magnet against here,
then up against the magnet, it won't fall down if I bump it.
And, here's gluing the second of my tool stands together.
Sometimes using clamps is more effective
at closing those joints, than it is to use a hammer.
I just dry-fitted this one together,
and it's gonna be a tool stand like this one.
So, I want to put some side panels in there.
And, for that I have to cut some grooves in the side
before I glue it together.
I hand-planed the slight round-over on the inside edges.
Every time I glue in a plywood panel like this people say
"You shouldn't glue it in cause it needs to expand and contract"
But, I'm sure most of you understand
the fallacy of that logic.
The last part is always the hardest to glue on
with four mortise and tenons and two panels
that need to line up all at once.
I don't know where this joint got hung up on,
but I don't like leaving unsightly gaps like that.
And, now whittling that round-over
all the way into the corner.
Next I want to inset a panel into the top, like this,
and for that I have to route a rabbet all around the edge.
Ideally I'd use a router rabbeting bit,
but I still don't have one, because every time I need to
route a rabbet, I just end up putting a guide on the router,
like this.
Fitting one of these panels is always tricky
because the hole is always half a millimeter wider maybe
on one end that it is on the other.
But this time it only took three or four tries on the table saw
to get it to fit close enough.
I hate paying for caster wheels, so I'm always scrounging
whatever used ones I can find, and of course I always like
to use the shittiest casters first,
like these ones for instance.
I made all-hardwood plywood flanges for these to fit onto.
This one holds the pantorouter.
This one holds my 20 inch bandsaw.
And, this one will get my 14 inch bandaw.
I still need to make drawers for all of these,
but I'll save that for another time.
And, ever since I built my screw advance box joiint jig,
box joint corners and cabinets like this,
have been a key design element for strength,
because if you make a box that's fully enclosed,
even if it's just plywood with pocket holes,
it's pretty rigid, but as soon as you have an opening
on the front,
then it's subject to racking, like this.
So, by making the comers with the box joint jig, like that,
that keeps the face nice and square, and that keeps the box
nice an rigid, like this one is,
when the lid is closed.