Furniture Building

The cherry has been purchased and my jointer and planer knives are back from the sharpening service. It's finally time to start making some shavings. Almost...

I am planning on starting with the hardest piece first, the chairside cabinet. There will be many parallel processes that could be happening and would be made easier if I do them all at once, but I want to focus on one piece at a time. The steps will be getting my cutlist in order, picking out wood for each piece of the cabinet, highlighting grain where appropriate. Then it'll be time to cut pieces to rough lengths and get the wood squared up to plane to thickness.

I'm a little concerned about maintaining even moisture in the shop once I start slicing into boards. They'll move like crazy if they're exposed to a lot of moisture. I'll likely wrap the pieces in polyethylene to keep the swings from doing much to the wood. We'll see... More to come as I have more to say.