To date, apart from one blindingly obvious 'cock up' there haven't been too many serious blunders and if all goes to plan, it should be finished reasonably soon.
That said, Plan 'A' was for the 'Titanic' to get to NYC in one piece.
However, it seems likely that nothing quite so calamitous is going to happen, so the pic above shows the back being fitted into the rebate. The very wide rail at the bottom will in fact, be behind the drawer unit, but if you look at the width of the remaining carcase side, there isn't enough space to fit the keyhole slot to hang the cabinet....something that's irritated me for a while.
Enter the first little sneaky 'fix'. By gluing on another separate 50mm block slightly narrower than the rebate, it now...
...provides enough material to make the hanging slot and all I needed to do was to cut out a corresponding housing in the edge of the back panel stile.
I also thought it would be a good idea to join the fixed shelf to the back panel...but how to mark out the exact position of the biscuits slots? The answer was surprisingly simple.
Enter the second sneaky fix. Bang veneer pins, (arrowed) into the dead centre of the biscuit slots in the shelf, nip of the heads so they're just proud (gnats maybe?) and offer up the back panel.
A light tap with a soft maul as the panel locates is enough to leave a couple of tiny holes to mark the position of the corresponding slots.
Not so much 'righty tighty'...definitely 'sneaky beaky'.
1 comment:
Nice moves there mate.
-patrick
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