update for steve m.

i've been in the shop all this week, and most of last. good progress has come of this. yesterday was spent applying a rib over top of the maple/zebrano intersection. this help define the shape, which was not the fairest of curves due to my poor scroll sawing.

there are six ribs in all. a bending form was made for each. the ribs are made up of six plies and add up to 1/4" in thickness. they go from 1/8" to 1/4" in height.

to shape the ribs, i filled a notch in my card scraper and pulled the material through. this worked fairly well, although the shellac that i've been applying keeps raising grain that was compressed from the scraping.

i started by applying the ribs to the door since these would spill over onto the side and bottom of the cabinet. to be certain of my alignment, i dry fit the carcass and placed the door on it's hinges. i was then able to scribe exactly where the edge of the cabinet was in respect to the rib. i scribed a line, and shot the angle. the small pieces were glued with the door in place to ensure alignment. i then kept wrapping the rib around the side and the back.

notch in the scraper

nice shavings. i didn't turn a burr on the scraper, i just use the filled edge

sawing off the little piece

shooting a 45 degree angle with a quick and dirty block

where two ribs meet, the spine, shall we say

angle awaiting it's mate

door and saw

made some progress on the liquor cabinet door today. had to do some work to my scroll saw first. it needed a throat plate and jaws for the chucks. it cuts really nicely.

    

scroll saw from the high school i went to.

arts industriels

new throat plate that i made.

    

some of the veneers put together for the door.

zebra metal

 my bandsaw fell on it's face the other day. it broke the table trunnion in three pieces. i needed to fix this  fast and cheap, so i drilled and taped holes through the parts and applied a generous amount of jb weld to the area. i then inserted a machine screw to bring everything together. it's still holding after a few months.

one of the broken bits in place

the evidence of the screw after some filling 

two of the machine screws sticking out of the trunnion

i've also been getting a bit of work done on the liquor cabinet. it seems like i've been jointing triangles of zebrano together for about a month, but i'm almost there. very much looking forward to mating the zebrano and maple together and veneering the parts.

messy bench

i've been using my block plane to shoot the glue joints...
i've been having problems with the stability of my
wooden jointer plane.

the clamping action of the wedge

up to date

i seem to be getting regular time in the shop lately. it's nice.

my bandsaw motor stopped working the other day, which prompted a bit of a rethink of how my machines were set up. the bandsaw and table saw used to share a stand. they sit on separate stands now, with better casters. this configuration is actually smaller then the 'one stand' option, even with an outfeed table on the table saw. they're made from elm that was reclaimed from a piano. even got a new motor for the bandsaw.

'new' 3/4 hp motor for the bandsaw

i also have 90% of the substrates laid up for a new cabinet. this is going to be a liquor cabinet, wall hung, with maple and zebrano parquetry. this one is posing a few design conundrums, but i'll get to those in due time. lumber core door, and the rest of the part are plywood core.

the front door will drop down, and serve as a work area

side view showing a bit of shape