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So Sunday and Monday I put in a new chisel rack, hinged at the top, so I can still get at the smoothing plane behind it, and now all my chisels can live, not only on the same wall of the shop, but in the same place, all laid out and organized and easy to get to. I got the red-handled chisels for Christmas, but didn't have room for them in my rack setup at the time, so they lived on a different shelf, behind the scrap wood... ah, I would like to say "bin" but realistically at this point it must be termed a "pile." As you can imagine, this meant I didn't use the Christmas chisels all that much. I hope I will use them more now.
I have decided my next project will be trying to make an instrument case for Pearl, because her current case is made for a banjo, and balanced entirely wrong because banjos have a very heavy body and octave mandolins don't, and as a consequence, the current case chews on my fingers anytime I try to carry it for any length of time, which is dissuading me from taking Pearl places.
The easy part is making the flat top and bottom; one of them (I haven't decided which) is pictured here, pinned by a holdfast. I have also secured one corner with a clamp to keep the workpiece from rotating around the point where the holdfast pins it. I hate it when stuff moves when I'm trying to work on it.
Holdfasts are cool and there is a brief description of how they work at the flicker version of this picture. I have got the proto-top and bottom glued up and mostly sanded flat. The next step is to make a form for the side walls; I have glued up 1 x 6 for this and will hopefully saw out 2 outlines and mount them about 4 inches from each other. Pictures will follow if I can make it work.
I have decided my next project will be trying to make an instrument case for Pearl, because her current case is made for a banjo, and balanced entirely wrong because banjos have a very heavy body and octave mandolins don't, and as a consequence, the current case chews on my fingers anytime I try to carry it for any length of time, which is dissuading me from taking Pearl places.
The easy part is making the flat top and bottom; one of them (I haven't decided which) is pictured here, pinned by a holdfast. I have also secured one corner with a clamp to keep the workpiece from rotating around the point where the holdfast pins it. I hate it when stuff moves when I'm trying to work on it.
Holdfasts are cool and there is a brief description of how they work at the flicker version of this picture. I have got the proto-top and bottom glued up and mostly sanded flat. The next step is to make a form for the side walls; I have glued up 1 x 6 for this and will hopefully saw out 2 outlines and mount them about 4 inches from each other. Pictures will follow if I can make it work.
