A lesson in woodworking:
1) Everyone eventually gets involved
2) Copious amounts of clamps need to be used
3) A lovely technique for putting together, oh, say a dresser - is biscuit joinery:
1) Everyone eventually gets involved
2) Copious amounts of clamps need to be used
3) A lovely technique for putting together, oh, say a dresser - is biscuit joinery:
Yes - biscuits - don't they just look like you could lay them out on a baking sheet and bake them right up?
You use this doohickey to make the slots to slide the biscuits in (half a slot on each side of whatever you want to join ...):
Then you start sticking the biscuits in - complete with wood glue: 
And then start fitting the piece of furniture together with the help of anyone willing and able to help (and more glue - of course ...):
Clamps are used to cram the two pieces together, or in the case of the emerging dresser / armoire - multiple pieces together ... This took quite an effort on all three of our parts just to get it put together (sort of like a dresser puzzle) clamped up and all the edges in PERFECT ALIGNMENT (a MUST for Gary):
More clamps:
Let sit and the wood glue dry - or at least start to dry ... and voilà! The inside of a dresser / armoire (I am unsure what it is exactly ... I will know better when it is done I guess). And note - after all that joinery, since none of this wood will be seen - it will all be covered with other pieces of wood - Gary put screws in it. I am pretty sure we could drop this sucker off our two story roof and it would just bounce ...
Lesson on biscuit joinery over ....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And on a more Christmas'sey note - lookie what I did!!!
The presents are wrapped! Oh, yes - I am done, done, done - except for Gary's ginormous boxes with his dove tail jig (lessons on that, I am sure will be coming at some future date) and this:
Just asking ...
1 comment:
I was just about to go wrap my own present when I read this! Now I might make him wrap it. I bought my own present though so isn't that bad enough. And my other present Shelley wrapped for him.
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