April 07, 2015
Once the glue was dry on the splines I could flush trim them. I used a paring chisel to get them close, then a combination of the shoulder plane and rabbet block plane to finish the trimming. [caption ...
March 25, 2015
The frame is finally glued up and nearly ready for finishing. I hate gluing miters, and doing something this large is even worse. My workbench isn't perfectly flat (it's also still too cold to glue in the shop), so I ...
March 23, 2015
I had to go out of town last week, so am a little behind on the walnut picture frame, but I got some nice work done this weekend. Last time, I left off after shaping the two shorter pieces. I used the same technique with ...
March 12, 2015
I hadn't fully come up with a plan to cut the multiple rabbets last time, but I think I have a good handle on it now. What I ended up doing was taking a few passes on each "step" with the shoulder plane to make sure I ...