keith Boutselis
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This is the inside of an 1850's safe I helped restore for a friend.
the safe had 1/4" dados in the walls, top and bottom. so I figured out a small pattern of shelves that would fit in the dados. It took me 7 hours to do this. thats way longer than I thought it would. I mean I knew i was a little slow but man, this seemed to take forever.
I had a hard time figuring out how to get everything together without using any fasteners. My friend kept saying "why cant you just bend all the parts into those slots". I finally convinced him that would never work. I planned out a way to hold the shelves in place and slide a dadoed center panel in over them. I actually did the whole thing twice. once with practice wood and then with the real thing. No glue, screws or nails. Snug but not tight.
it came out pretty good. I have not really had a chance to do any GOOD work in my shop all winter My wood working shop has been used for everything but wood work for about 4 months. so this was a treat even if it was small and time consuming.
still needs its drawer pull which is going to come from an antique shop.
the safe had 1/4" dados in the walls, top and bottom. so I figured out a small pattern of shelves that would fit in the dados. It took me 7 hours to do this. thats way longer than I thought it would. I mean I knew i was a little slow but man, this seemed to take forever.
I had a hard time figuring out how to get everything together without using any fasteners. My friend kept saying "why cant you just bend all the parts into those slots". I finally convinced him that would never work. I planned out a way to hold the shelves in place and slide a dadoed center panel in over them. I actually did the whole thing twice. once with practice wood and then with the real thing. No glue, screws or nails. Snug but not tight.
it came out pretty good. I have not really had a chance to do any GOOD work in my shop all winter My wood working shop has been used for everything but wood work for about 4 months. so this was a treat even if it was small and time consuming.
still needs its drawer pull which is going to come from an antique shop.