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4 months and countless sweaty hours in the garage later, and it’s finally finished. I designed, planned, and built every detail.

There are 76 individual “tails” throughout the piece, all cut by hand.

Drawers are "piston fit". As close as I could get, anyway.

It’s made almost entirely with traditional joinery (although the knobs and base are attached with screws, sue me!).

Joinery:
Carcass: Through dovetails and dados for the internal dividers
Drawers: Half-blind dovetails and dados
Base: Mortise and tenons

The carcass and fronts are walnut, the drawer sides are curly maple, and baltic birch plywood makes up some of the internal components. The whole thing is finished with hardwax oil.

Thanks for reading!

4 months and countless sweaty hours in the garage later, and it’s finally finished. I designed, planned, and built every detail.

There are 76 individual “tails” throughout the piece, all cut by hand.

Drawers are "piston fit". As close as I could get, anyway.

It’s made almost entirely with traditional joinery (although the knobs and base are attached with screws, sue me!).

Joinery:
Carcass: Through dovetails and dados for the internal dividers
Drawers: Half-blind dovetails and dados
Base: Mortise and tenons

The carcass and fronts are walnut, the drawer sides are curly maple, and baltic birch plywood makes up some of the internal components. The whole thing is finished with hardwax oil.

Thanks for reading!

Embarking on a chest of drawers and finally in a groove with these longer half-blinds. Very satisfying.

I have a Jorgensen No.4 that I’ve used for about a year. One thing that’s bugged me is I can’t seem to get the throat to a ideal tightness (shooting for 1/32-1/64…this is closer to 1/16).

It has a screw to bring the frog forward, but when I do that the blade has to peek out when the depth adjustment knob is already as far “retracted” as it can go.

My blade is as close to the chip breaker as I can get it, so no room there.

Is there an adjustment I’m missing here, or is this simply of limitation of this particular plane?