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Chisel Cabinet Days 07-10
Entered: 2010-01-28
Edited: 2010-01-28
Type: woodworking

By this point of the project my holiday vacation was over and I was back to only getting an hour or two free an evening to work so progress slows down a bit here. Days 7-10 were spent doing the same thing from the last entry, over and over again since I needed to cut four mortise and tenon joints to make the first door frame. After a couple of evenings of work I had a nice rectangular frame:



The next step towards turning this nice frame into a door frame was to plow (or plough) a 1/4" groove along the inside edge of each piece of the frame. For that task I used the appropriately named plow plane.



Much like the moving fillister plane I used to cut the rabbet in the back of the carcass the plow plane uses an adjustable fence and depth stop to guide and control the cut. Although this is also not a southpaw friendly tool I rather like using mine because mine is a well made, well designed example of the species, a Record 046 for those of you playing at home. It's a good size, easy to adjust and holds it's settings without a lot of futzing around. One thing it isn't great at is making stopped (doesn't go the full length of the board) grooves though, like I need in the stiles. So I have to call in back up to finish the grooves in the stiles.



If I lined up everything correctly when plowing the groove then the grooves should line up perfectly when I put it back together. Which it does. After plowing the groove I next drilled a 3/16" hole through the mortise walls in the stiles along with a corresponding hole in the tenons on the rails. The hole in tenons is slightly offset from the one through the mortise so that when a dowel is driven though the assembled joint it pulls the assembly together very tight. This is called drawboring and eliminates the need to use clamps to hold the frame together while the glue dries and can eliminate the need for glue as well. After drilling the holes I checked the alignment using a drawbore pin, which is a tapered steel rod that simulates the effect of inserting a wooden dowel through the joint and "primes" the holes for accepting the dowel later.



And that's it for the door frame itself. Next step will be to make the panel that will go in the center of the door frame and then hang the doors on the cabinet. I've never built or hung doors before so there will be less action shots in future posts since I'll want to focus on doing the next parts correctly instead of documenting them step by step.
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