Making a Sliding Dovetail Breadboard End

[WDH]

WDH........... your photography is great compared to mine.  Fantastic chest too!  I have been struggling with my pics for posting.  It seems that after croping, sizing to 400 pixels, then compressing 100 percent then decreasing jpeg quality to get to 15,000 byts storage size they are always fuzzy.  Yours look GREAT.   What is your secret? ??? ???

I crop like you do.  Then I re-size until the maximum pixel size on the largest dimension is less than 450 (449 or less).  Then I compress so that the max size is a tad under 35,000 KB.  Keep the compression between 32,000 and 35,000 KB, and that should improve the clarity.  I followed the tutorial in this thread............

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=23851.0

[Dodgy Loner]

Looking great.  I see you've got plenty of the sapwood inside the chest, too!

I've been working with some cedar recently, too, but it wasn't quite as nice.  I had a fellow give me a nice, big cedar log this spring, but during the milling process, I discovered three strands of barbed wire running through the center (and managed to hit every one :)  So my sawyer cut off the bottom 2 feet of the log and kept on milling.  I decided to make a big bowl for the fellow out of the section we cut off as a thank-you for his generosity, and I managed to ruin a blade on my bandsaw in the process.  Had to sharpen my gouge several times while I was turning it, too, as the wire that I thought I removed just kept reappearing every couple inches :-\.  After figuring the cost of the sawmill blade, the bandsaw blade, and extra steel from my gouge, it'll end up being the most expensive bowl I've ever made :D!

[WDH]

Looking great.  I see you've got plenty of the sapwood inside the chest, too!

Yep, I purposely put the sapwood on the inside versus the outside :-\.  I guess it always pays to ask the customer first ;D.

Cedars around home sites, just like walnut, seem to have an over abundance of metallic parasites :D. 

[SwampDonkey]

Spruce to, when the old timer decides to expand the fencing down through the spruce grove for cow shades. :D

[Dodgy Loner]

We were guilty of nailing some electrical fence insulators directly to trees at our old homeplace :-[.  When we bought land in Athens, we were well aware of the frustrations that can arise when beautiful trees turn out to be full of metallic parasites, so we made sure that the new fences were attached to pines that were already dead (and thoroughly impregnated with ACQ ;D)

[WDH]

The chest is finished!







There is a sliding tray for small items.  Now, I have one more to do in cherry and all three daughters will be outfitted with chest ;D.

[Norm]

Wow, very nice WDH.

That is some pretty ERC you used and the finish really shows it off.

[Dakota]

Beautiful.  That should last for generations.

[Furby]

So you are giving each of your daughters a smelly chest?
;D
Nice work, really! 8)

[metalspinner]

 8) 8)
Very nice, WDH.  Makes me wish I had a daughter. :(

[SwampDonkey]

Nothing holding ya back from making a deacon's bench or two. ;D

[WDH]

OK.  I remember you posting a pic somewhere about a deacon bench.  Do you remember which thread?

[SwampDonkey]

I don't remember if i had some plans, but have you Googled some. Been away all week. ;)

An old timer in his 80's used to make them to give away to neighbors and fish and game clubs. I've seen a few of them in houses over the years, but most where store bought and made from softwoods. Be better from hardwood with a cedar lining maybe?