On to the next stage. I need to make a window frame, similar to what I made a few years ago for the shoji style lantern, only smaller and only one of them.
So, another dive into the wood scraps box came up with some padauk. I ripped them thinner, then cut a few grooves with the router.
Those were then ripped again to make stiles and rails for the frame.
Here they are arranged as they will be finally glued together.
I trimmed some ends and decided to assembl the outer frame one glue joint at a time. The first…
The red 90 degree angle makes assembly easier and more accuracy. I decided these joints would be done with CA. I clamped one stick (rail) to the worktable and used the guide block to align the other stick (stile) to make the 90 degree corner, and then applied a drop of CA and hit it with accelerator. (The stile is the vertical part of a window frame, the rail the horizontal stick.)
Then the second corner…
Those corners came out good…
The second rail slips right in between the ends of the two stiles.
I clamped and then glued the final 2 corners.
I used the disc sander with 220 grit sandpaper to sand the center muntin to the desired length.
It fits “just right”.
The two short pieces, (horizontal muntins), were cut and sanded to length. And I missed taking a photo of the frame in the final glued up and kind of rough and dirty looking condition. After sanding on the bench belt sander with successively finer grades of paper, 120, 180, 240, this is what the frame looks like. It still needs final edge and corner sanding with hand held sand paper.
That is all for now. Thanks for looking.