My recollection of the wood was that it was more closely sized than it actually turned out to be. For some reason I thought all of my bigger boards were at least 11 inches wide by 96 inches long, but my memory was way off. Some were 8, 9, 10 and 11 inches wide, so now I need to do some glue ups so that I can finalize each board piece at 11 inches wide.
My bench top jointer and I had some disagreements today, so now I’ll need to run boards through the table saw before I can do the glue ups. More obstacles, and more delays. I can still fix everything at this point, so it’s all good.
So now I’ll trim the boards, glue them, trim them down to matching size, run them all through the planer, then I can cut my box joints, tenons and make shoulders to fit. Dry fit, and router my edges to round them over, sand everything to 200 grit, and then do a proper glue up, and lastly I can consider using my Osmo or a clear poly wipe on finish. Both get pretty stinky so it’ll have to sit in the shop for at least a week to offgas before I bring it inside and tear down the dogs crate.
I had given some considerable thought to just going to the Century Mill to buy 12 inch wide Cherry boards but that’s cost prohibitive, and I’ve all ready made some more saw cross cuts, so I’ll work with what I’ve got on the go now. No harm done. These are the mistakes I make when I go months between projects. No matter, it’s not an heirloom piece, so I can hide some mistakes here or there! That’s the beauty of wood. It can be forgiving if need be. I’d be far more upset if this was Walnut or something really exotic and expensive.
I’ll take more photos as I progress, see if I can’t get this storage unit to look how it’s supposed to be the time I’m done with it.
Greatwall Studios Graphic Design 