Are you having a fit?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:18 pm
Time comes when the carcase boards and interior partitions can be assembled together. The approach I suggest is to pre-fit each piece, one at a time.
I started by fitting the end boards to the long side boards:
Once the ends board is fitted, I set about fitting the handle to the end board. On my pieces, that meant trimming a little material off of the tongue on the handle:
Then the handle and end board are checked for fit, and the handle tenons are individually fitted to their mortises:
Here's a view of the assembled end board and handle:
with the two pieces together it should be readily apparent how the top edges together unite to form a large tongue:
That tongue will be fitted into a groove on the cap board soon enough.
A front view of the assembly:
With all the multiple mortise and tenoned corners fitted, along with the handles, i moved on to fitting the floor panel to each carcase board:
The floor panel had been left 0.01" fat after the last round of planing, so I took a further 0.05~0.07" off. That makes for a slight intereference fit between the floor panel and the carcase board dadoes.
The debris pile afterwards- love color of the Pau Amerello shavings!:
Next the partitions were fitted:
Time to give the inside of the long side carcase boards a planing to remove pencil marks and camellia oil residue:
That completes the fitting of the individual parts. Tomorrow I'll assemble the tool box carcase, floor, and partitions.
I started by fitting the end boards to the long side boards:
Once the ends board is fitted, I set about fitting the handle to the end board. On my pieces, that meant trimming a little material off of the tongue on the handle:
Then the handle and end board are checked for fit, and the handle tenons are individually fitted to their mortises:
Here's a view of the assembled end board and handle:
with the two pieces together it should be readily apparent how the top edges together unite to form a large tongue:
That tongue will be fitted into a groove on the cap board soon enough.
A front view of the assembly:
With all the multiple mortise and tenoned corners fitted, along with the handles, i moved on to fitting the floor panel to each carcase board:
The floor panel had been left 0.01" fat after the last round of planing, so I took a further 0.05~0.07" off. That makes for a slight intereference fit between the floor panel and the carcase board dadoes.
The debris pile afterwards- love color of the Pau Amerello shavings!:
Next the partitions were fitted:
Time to give the inside of the long side carcase boards a planing to remove pencil marks and camellia oil residue:
That completes the fitting of the individual parts. Tomorrow I'll assemble the tool box carcase, floor, and partitions.