Bandsaw Box  3                                                12-2022

 

Back to the Bandsaw Continued

 

Here I'm laying out some sawcut lines on my drawers using a compass. I placed the pencil above the pointer so I could use the pointer as a guild while marking my lines.
 

 

 

I finished laying out corners using a 1/4" radius gauge.
 

 

 

This went pretty good but I did have some problems with cutting those corners as you can see by the burn marks. One of the reasons I had trouble is because of the plastic table insert sits just below the surface, causing my work piece to move when I didn't want it to move. I have a solution for this but it will require me to make some tooling and shouldn't happen again in the future.
 

 

 

More Sanding

 

I sanded all the drawers and then glued on the fronts and backs.
 

 

 

The next day I started sanding on the box. With the belt sanding attachment having a different size radius on each end, this made it convenient to use depending on what I was sanding.
 

 

 

Here I'm sanding the outside of all the boxes after the fronts and backs were glued on. Like I said, lots of sanding...
 

 

 

Final Details

 

I'm using my router and a 1/8" roundover bit to break the corners of all the drawer pockets. The reason I'm doing this is to help hide the not-so straight saw cuts and the saw kerfs.
 

 

 

I also put the same size radius on the fronts of the drawers using my router table.
 

 

 

Drawer Pulls

 

I'm going to make some small drawer pulls out of some maple scraps that I had laying around.
 

 

 

I put a piece in my lathe and tuned it to 1/2" diameter.
 

 

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