Needed a better way to store my MFT3 dogs...they have been in a refrigerator ice container that was clumsy and the plastic was failing...I have a number of different types of dogs... 4 BT&C Spots, 6 Qwas dogs, 2 short and 2 tall Parf dogs, |
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Recommended for a solid project: "Any dense hardwood and it should be quartersawn stock." I pulled a 4/4 white oak boards from the attic...quartersawn with flakes on the surface...plus pretty good vertical end grain. |
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Had a strip cutoff of 1/2 inch cherry |
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Milled the oak to 3/4 inch thickness...jointed and planed...ripped to 4 inches and chopped it to match the width of the end of the MFT 3 table... |
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Drilled a couple of 5/8 inch holes out the ends the oak base rail...put in a couple of handles on the 5/8 - 18 bolts... |
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these bolts are too long...have some appropriate length T-bolts coming... (2 1/2 inch). |
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Laid the cherry out for 20 mm holes to be centered at 25 mm between most of the dogs...with 40 millimeter centers for the larger dogs. The oak got a 1/2 dado for the cherry ledge to slip into. |
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Dry fit of cherry ledge and all of the dogs... |
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Decided to add some kind of way to hold up the Anderson MFT3 layout square. |
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Edges were planed.....then edges were chamfered...surfaces sanded...glue up was with hid glue. |
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Glue up...though I tried to be gentle on the cherry, there was a minor blow up towards the thin front area...glued it up and blew it off... |
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Put on a coat of wiping varnish...shop brew...used the bottom of a plastic tub with the varnish thickening...seemed to rub in ok... |
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Test fit for all of the dogs... |
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New 1 1/2 inch T-bolts installed...handles fit much nicer... |
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After hanging the dog rack, I decided that I did not want the layout square attached to it...I opted to create some independent hangers that would be more flexible. |
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Dowell holes needed to be on an angle...got out the drill press angle jig...I had never measured the lowest angle possible...angle gauge says ~4°... |
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...confirmed this using Angle Cube. |
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After testing with the plywood mock-ups...I decided to make the hangers more robust and a bit longer...because the knobs hit the top edge of the square... |
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So, I switched to a thicker piece of maple and worked the edges with rasps... |
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Hanging on the end of the MFT but will try out the backside as well... |
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