wooden nails

Shopmade wooden nails ... the dovetails prevent opening just in one direction, the other one is secured with the nails:

The body finished

The body was glued together.
Because being alone and having no time to fumble around I didn't use special clamping jigs but brushed on the glue, knocked together the two diagonal corners, turned the whole thing on one side and jumped on it near the corners to settle it - worked fine because of the thick boards (would not try it with a juwelry-box).

The body ... dovetailed and glued

The next task will be to make some wood-nails to hold the joints together even when the glue fails (in 200 years or so ;-)

The first gluing

4 boards meet with 8 corners ... so 8 dovetail-sawing, -chiseling and tuning ...

When 2 board were finished I glued them together ... working on the other two while the glue dries:

my shopmade square helps and a twisted rope corrects the 90°-angle

my special dovetail-clamping-jig

Sharpening ... day two

grinding off most "shining" saves much time ... just 3 mm of the bevel have contact to the stone

Weekend - Sharpening Time

The 13 MHG-Chisels have to be sharpend. That would not be the problem, but I want the angle reduced from 30° to 25° ... so a lot of work. I love my Dremel which helps me a lot to cut down the time for rough work.

the Veritas MK2-Sharpening-Guide, my Dremel and Japanese Water-Stones ... razor-sharp chisels