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On my boring till.... Today, I worked a shift on the base at the Wood shop. So I brought along my dovetailed box, AKA the boring till, with the intentions of cutting the groove, glue the carcass and cut the back panel.... a mere 20 minutes operation :-) That was the plan Saturday AM. But Friday my car developed problems with my driver door, wont opened from inside, door handle feel mushy... Well that was fun contorting myself to the passenger seat with Rudy's help (NOT) Once outside figured out I could open the door from the outside... Drove from the building supply store to my nearest garage I trust, OK Tire in Kingston, and they shown me how to open the door from the inside, appointment to fix it is Wednesday. Huh, Ford has a recall on door latch but mine was not affected, maybe I should look at it closer. Saturday morning, decided to take my car to go to the club, while Jean used her truck to move some gardening supplies. Arriving on base, I saw that they had the whole parking a...

We do have the occasional hi teens temps but it is short lived then interspersed by rain and gasp... Snow!!! Well, nonetheless in my recent travels thru Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, Ontario, I have seen signs that winter is hanging in, and signs that Spring has arrived. So that's it and I now declared Spring has arrived in NS, and none too soon I may add! In our travels saw trees loaded with buds... :-) Pic from Facebook We did not saw much snow until we reached northern New Brunswick, but then the white scenes followed us until Quebec city. Jean was amazed at the numbers of wild deers she saw in the fields in the country side of Quebec, they are starting to changes their food regimen, they can now eat grass. Mind you Quebec city itself had plenty of reminders of the kind of winter they had, lots of blackened snow banks hanging in for a while longer, and the usual Tempos (Tm) shelters are still up. Ontario was generally warmer, lots of temps in the teens. Switched Rudy sn...

This is turning out to be a very sloooow build... I was asked to work a shift at the wood shop today, 1000 to 1600 on Saturdays So I brought along my pieces and finished cutting my dovetails. Someone asked me why I did not uses the dovetail jig in the corner... Too noisy, makes a mess and I don't like the look of router cut dovetails thank you... So keeping within the scope of were I was I donned ear defender while chopping my dovetails with Gerhard's Jenesaiquoi persuader  :-) I played with it a few times but this was its first real workout. I love it! Nice heft and balance, make quick work of chopping. Well done Gerhard and thank you! two sides done All sides done and dry fitted I did not bothered gluing it, but gave it a quick check for squareness, good to go! Next would be cutting a rabbet in the back for the back panel, then glue it, clean up the joinery, prime and paint it, then put the back in. Once that is done, the fun part would be to make suitable holder for the tool...