April 18th – Joint cutting day (or for those who lived in the 70’s “wood joint cutting day”). Here is the dry fit of the casing and back. It is a little lower than the 42” top of case final size – but you can kind of get the feel for how it’s going to look. The outside is approximately 19” W x 15” D x 27” H.
I had settled on doing blind dovetails with a custom spacing – that is extra wide tails and narrow pins. After testing some options, my wife said that the standard pattern from the jig looked the best. This worked out to be good, as the “kiln dried walnut” was trying to warp, the tight spacing of pins and tails has more strength, and screw it – they are one hell of a lot easier to cut.
Once the back panel is finished and the mountings for the top glass have been cut the case will be glued up.