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I'm going to make four cheese slicers as Christmas gifts
for this project. I've made some of these back in 2016
(before I had any wood working machines) and again those
were gifts as well. I'll be using mostly scrap wood, which will be alder,
black walnut, oak, poplar, mahogany, sapele, purple heart, maple, and a
couple of others.
Working With Wood
The first thing I did was sort some pieces and then
started running them all through my table saw. This way all my glued
edges will have a nice clean surface to work with.
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Next I cut some of my pieces oversize to
10.0" using my miter saw. The finished size will be 9 3/4" X 6.0".
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Then I glued up all my pieces.
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The next day I ran them all though my thickness planer and then trimmed
the sides to size.
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I used my crosscut sled to bring in the lengths.
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Then
I sanded each one using my DA sander. This operation goes pretty fast.
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I softened the top edges using my router with a 3/16" roundover
bit.
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I'm using different hardware this time compared to the others that I made.
These are much better than the last ones and they come in two
different colors. Now it time to do some drilling.
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I'll need a 1/4" hole that is 3 3/4" deep for the above
hardware. However, I don't have a 1/4" drill long enough to make that
happen but I have a solution. Working from left to right: I first I used
my center drill to establish my hole location. Next I used a 7/32" drill
and went as deep as I could. Then I switched to the longer 7/32" drill
and went to my desired depth of 3 3/4".
If you look close at the above picture, particularly the end of
the arm that will go into this hole, you'll notice it has a two
diameters. The small diameter is just under 7/32" so the long drill worked out great
here.
Last I used a 1/4" drill which is what the larger diameter is on
the arm, and I went slightly deeper than it needed to be, so the arm would go all
the way in.
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I clamped my work piece to an angle plate and used some squeeze clamps
to hold it in place while I drilled it. Here I'm using my longer drill.
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