I am making a set of veneered knife cases similar to the ones shown on the back of FWW from . Can anyone tell me how the “knife deck” is connected to the inside of the the case? Is it only held up by the dividers extending to the bottom? I posted a discussion about this project about a month ago and am having a terrible time with it.
I didn’t think it would be easy to veneer the inside of it (even with hammer veneering with hide glue) once the box was assembled, so I applied crossbanding and surface veneer to both edges before assembly. Big big mistake (at least for the outside) since the veneer has to cover the joints. The joints themselves are rabbets as was advised by a few people in this forum, but it seems almost impossible to get the front rabbet to line up with the sides, as there is no flat reference surface on the serpentine front. I have tried to tweak it with a shoulder plane and only made a disaster worse since the rabbet is slightly rotated with respect to the orientation to the sides, so the surfaces to be glued are not in apposition. I can add a strip of pine and re-plane the rabbets. Any advice welcome.
Jay
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Jay,
I simply supported the deck of my boxes with glue blocks. I attached them to the inside surfaces of the box, then laid the deck on them. I had no partitions under the deck.
I cannot understand your description of the problem you are having with the veneer as it relates to the rabbet joints. Did you veneer the faces, and then try to cut the joints? Or were the joints cut before you applied the veneer to the inside face?
Ray
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