Some have project plans in their head, some ......

[Jeremy Scuteri]

This is what happens when I try and wing it.

It all goes fine and dandy.......... until it doesn't

The worst part is, I remember thinking about this very issue. That thought was nowhere to be found when it mattered though. At least it is a straight forward fix.

 

[junquecol]

Been there, done it! Once I built a set of cubbies for local "Y." Only way to get them through door opening was to remove base, and then use a broom handle as a roller. Actually used the handle from a toilet plunger. You should have seen look on helpers face when I came back from truck with plunger. I guess he thought I was going to do like in the cartoons and use plunger to pull cubbies through the door opening. Nice thing about your problem, actually a great chance to show off your problem solving skills, are pieces of edge banding aren't nailed on.

 

[Dave Richards]

I feel your pain.

So are you going to grind a little off the column so the top will fit?

 

[ste6168]

Yeah, not sure this is a side-effect from winging it, or just "unforeseen issues," as I like to refer to them. I built a storage cabinet for our laundry room recently, wanted to build it in one piece (instead of two cabinets) to make it easier... Comes time to install, and it was about 1/4" to wide to fit into the opening without removing the door trim. To make it worse, the room was JUST PAINTED. Fun times.

 

[Mike Davis]

Feather in your cap for winging it, now make that minor adjustment and enjoy your new drill press cabinet.

 

[JimD]

Primary challenge is solving obstacles. It's nice to get a little experience and avoid a lot of them but I don't have enough experience to avoid nearly all.

I also like working wood better than working on cars because the worst that can happen is I go get another piece of wood.

 

[NOTW]

I bet its the change in seasons and the extra humidity made the post on the drill press swell....

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

So are you going to grind a little off the column so the top will fit?

I bet its the change in seasons and the extra humidity made the post on the drill press swell....

It seems like we are accumulating evidence that the column is in fact the issue. Now to bust out the grinder.

Yeah, not sure this is a side-effect from winging it, or just "unforeseen issues," as I like to refer to them.

I would feel better if that was the case. It was foreseen, thought about, then subsequently forgotten.

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

My simple fix isn't going so well......

I decided to use a jig saw with a straight edge to make these cuts so I didn't have to worry about the curvature of the tablesaw blade. My first attempt results in a cut that became less and less square (in the vertical direction) as the cut progressed. I figured that I let the jig saw tip as I made the cut. Moved my line over a bit and made a new cut, it seemed to go well. Did the same thing on the other side and it also seemed to go well, until I noticed the offcut looked odd. Put a square on the cut and this is what I see:

The cut started off pretty square and then got worse as the cut progressed. Multiple times in a row now.

The other side is just as bad with the error in the same direction

It seems like this is conceptually similar to a having blade drift on a bandsaw when using the rip fence. I suspect that the line that the blade wants to cut to is not parallel to the edge of the jigsaw. I'll have to figure out how to adjust that.

 

[woodworker2000]

So are you going to grind a little off the column so the top will fit?

That's silly. He wants it to do it right so I'm sure he will cut uniform notches on each side of the column so the table will fit like a glove.

 

[farmerbw]

How about using your straight edge/guide and a router with a flush cut bit? That would give you a square cut I'd think.

B.

 

[danmart77]

Jeremy I hope you never come to my shop. I am pretty sure you might leave early. Its not very clean. I think you fall in the "Charlie platoon" for being neat and orderly.

Cut the slot and get something going. Good Luck

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

Look at this mess.

Those shavings on the floor don't bother me at all. I can leave them there as long as I want to.

I don't even notice them. Not at all......

I don't even feel them when I step on them........

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The broom and vacuum just happened to be close by ......

 

[nn4jw]

My livingroom is messier than your shop!

 

[tri4sale]

Look at this mess.

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Those shavings on the floor don't bother me at all. I can leave them there as long as I want to.

I don't even notice them. Not at all......

I don't even feel them when I step on them........

Bah, that's nothing, not an issue... no need to clean that up.... Please send an after photo of the cleaned up so I can sleep at night....

 

[Mike Davis]

Some of y’all would faint, throw up, have convulsions, call me bad names... so I’m not posting photos of my shop today.

And I would really like to show some progress shots of my dust collector modifications.

 

[Graywolf]

I'm confused, was there a problem to solve?

 

[Mike Davis]

No, just a slight mistake that turned South.

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

The jigsaw does have "drift" which makes running the base (which isn't parallel to the cut-line) against a reference surface an issue.

This is the equivalent of adjusting for blade drift on a stationary bandsaw.



Ideally the cut line would be perfectly parallel to the drawn line at the end of the cut. Close enough.

The pencil line above shows the edges of the jigsaw base.

You can visually see the drift angle in the photo above. The jigsaw is attached with double edge tape.

I was ready to cut the piece of plywood clamped to the edge of the bench with my drift angle adjusted base.

And...... the blade wasn't long enough to go through the plywood and the base. About 1/16" too short. It almost made it. That got me looking at the blade, it was a high TPI blade (didn't want tear out) and when I looked it up, it was a "scrolling blade". I thought that may be the issue. Tried it with a wider blade that isn't made for tight turns and had the same exact issue. I have not tried the wider blade with the drift adjusted. So that was a big let down......

Eventually I fell back on a suggestion from @farmerbw of using a router and a flush trim bit. That worked very well, first try right out of the gate, no nonsense, no fuss.

Painters tape and super glue in place of double sided tape. This was the first time I tried this. It worked well and was easy to remove without damaging the veneer.

Hooray.

Now to attach the edge banding....... Again......

A little extra material was needed for this little piece of edge banding to compensate for errors.

Last two pieces in the clamps.

 

[Mike Davis]

Festool with blade drift? How can that be?