Spice Rack  13                                                11-2023

 

Working With Wood Continued

 

This was pretty easy to do and should keep the bottles from falling.
 

 

 

It's hard to beat a milling machine for fit and finish.
 

 

 

I'm nearing the end of this project and one of the last steps is to make the drawers. I'm resawing some alder that will be used to make the drawers with, except for the fronts which will be purple heart. If you look close you can see some layout lines on the larger piece that represent some of my pieces.
 

 

 

Next I ran them all through my thickness planer.
 

 

 

This is thickness I came up with for the alder.
 

 

 

Here I'm sanding all my pieces before I cut them to length.
 

 

 

And here are all my pieces for the drawers. The purple heart is 5/16" thick because I needed the extra material for some joinery.
 

 

 

I'm making a rabbet on three sides of the front pieces so the sides and bottom have a little more surface area for glue.
 

 

 

I switched saw blades so I have a flat bottom for my rabbets. I used my crosscut sled for this operation because I can control the length easily here.
 

 

 

And there we are, these drawer fronts are ready to be assembled.
 

 

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