LOML is out at her parents this weekend and I have been left to my own devices. II've been wanting to build a shaker lap desk for a while, and yesterday I ran across this old plan from the woodworkers journal.
Since I can't wrap up my other project until my hardware arrives I decided to challenge myself and see if I can complete the construction of this relatively simple project by the end of the weekend. Not only will I hopefully end up with a nice lap desk, but I'll get to use up a bunch of BORG pine cutoffs in the process.
Here's the progress so far after about 3 hours of work.
Carcass pieces roughly dimensioned.
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Dimensioning complete and ready for joinery
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Grooves cut and its time to start the dovetails.
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Sides are dovetailed to the back.
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Just finished lunch break, time to turn of the History channel special on the Dark Ages and get back to dovetailing the front.
More to come....