Last week I made two tablets outta virtual scrap wood. You remember the bed in Walnut? Yes, I went through the boards and thought I could easily see future scrap wood, that would make up for two nice tablets. First picture shows how I clamped the shallow sides in order to plane 1/4 inch grooves. The Rapier worked fine as always, just a bit tiny in my hands. I'm eyeballing on the new Veritas version.
Gluing the second tablet. The session was quite smooth, not as on the first one. The panel was oiled before I put the clamps...
I made 4 mm dowels of walnut with hatchet, chisel and dowel plate. The riven stock has to be near the final diameter. Otherwise it is a tedious job. In the background the first tablet.
I positioned the holes, drilled the same with the following tools... The eggbeater is smooth and entirely destined to this kind of job.
The final projects measure near 33 by 53 cm. The sides are 2 cm thick. Thought this to feel right as they aren't high...
Definitely I worked on the headboard yesterday. First thing was to cut the upper ends at the right height and then to establish the round end shape with a compass.
I used a micro plane rasp - thanks Urs - for this job. It took kind of tiny shavings very easily without scratching the surface. Nonetheless I'm not sure of the longevity of this tool. Time will show.
After a bit of sanding the ends looked like in this photo. I thought I would not push further this work until the headboard was together.
So I went on marking the mortises for the upper horizontal board. A pattern helped to transmit the position from the board's tenon to the leg's mortice. Both mortises are done at the moment, so the tenons will follow one of these...
