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These days I’ve been incorporating hand instruments increasingly into the tasks I’m engaged on. I used to be lately exploring methods to make rabbets for a serving tray I’m engaged on as a Christmas present. There are, in fact, quite a few methods to make them. I used to be within the temper to make mine by hand. As luck would have it – and since I’m the ebook editor – I occurred to have an advance copy of a fantastic new e-book “Hand Tool Fundamentals” by Steve Branam. It explains a number of methods to make rabbets by hand from utilizing a chisel to saws to varied handplanes. Right here’s a video of Branam displaying how one can use a number of planes to make this useful joint. In fact, the e-book covers far more than rabbets. “Hand Tool Fundamentals” options tons of nice methods for utilizing and caring for a wide selection of instruments together with chisels, saws, planes and instruments for marking, meas...

Obtain PDF The Rabbet Earlier than chopping the rabbet for the mirror and again panel, you’ll need to have all supplies on-hand. Glass cutters will usually hit your dimensions +/- 1/eight″ so it’s good to know the precise measurements earlier than you make your cuts, simply in case you should make some modifications. The thickness of the fabric is essential too since 1/four″ plywood is all the time lower than 1/four″. To cut the rabbet I exploit a typical bearing-guided rabbeting bit. The bit produces a half″ vast rabbet and the depth is managed by the depth setting of the router itself. When chopping the rabbet, you may need to hold the body over the sting of your workbench if the router bit is making contact together with your bench floor. Store-Made Clips To carry the mirror and again panel in place, we’ll want some low-profile clips. These could be made with wood and the thought is that they screw into the body ...