Doing short shop times...work a while, rest a day....Today's was about making pencil grooves, and a mortise, or two.
My Stanley 45 doesn't have the small "cove" cutters, it has a 3/4" wide one...a little too wide for pens & pencils to sit in...Had to scrounge up a small cove bit for the router..
Could not think of a safe, easy way to mill grooves with a hand held router....hmmm
Happen to have a Vintage Router, with it's own table...
Table itself is a SKIL, about the same as Norm Abram started with. Router?
An all-metal, B&D 1/4" collett. Takes these two wrenches to change the bits..
Set up the cove bit, fence is my homemade do-everything guide/fence..
All this, just to mill 4 grooves?
Then remove the bit, and set the router table back into it's place in the shop..
Until the next time I need it..
Next was a couple of these..things
Behind the pencil/pen holders is a thin strip of hardwood. Holders get glued to the front. thin strip sits in a dado at each end...hand saw to start this excavation
Chisels to get this ready for a test fit..
Then figured out where a mortise needed to go, to hold one end of the drawer runner. Drawer reside on this, with the top of the case preventing any tipping. Runner does not need to go all the way to the back. I'll cut the drawers' sides long enough, that they will reach to the back.
And, that was it for today. Tomorrow, I can chop the other two slots...and maybe start on the resaw stuff..
Stay tuned..