For the last two weeks the Impractical Studies students have been making planes - a smoother, jointer, and a coopering plane. They also started this week on edge jointing and shaping the door of their Wabi Sabi exercise - a small wall hung cabinet with a coopered door.
At the front bench
Marking out the mouth of a coopering plane
Carving the mouth
Robert glues up
Jake's planes
Thanks Ron Hock!
John fits the top of his cabinet; Mike planes his coopered door
John has been making awesome progress on his Composing piece, a cabinet out of spalted Western Maple with two coopered doors. This week he finished dowelling his carcass, ran grooves for his partitions and rabbets on the sides of the cabinet.
End of the day
Robert's door and coopering planes