Creating snack beds

Most of today's work was spent on cutting out members of my eventual products, which I started calling, as shown in the title field, snack beds. They are shown in the next photograph.



White pieces on the left are the side members, which will sandwich the browny centre pieces in the right hand stack, and the bonding simulation is shown in the following picture.



I expect them to be planed tomorrow, cut out, and hopefully bonded again into their final shape, which is not shown here.

I also spent some time on improving on existing jigs. This one here,



now has a small flap on it in order to stabilise the holding process. This jig will be used as it is shown here, with the member pointing to the right coming to the bottom of the assembly, and I may even add another small part to the bottom of it so that the work piece will not slip down the whole assembly while being cut.

The final picture for today is another cutting jig. Bonded pieces before incisions are made into the corners will be held by the toggle stopper. The whole assembly will be firmly held in turn by the vise, which is part of my milling machine. It is shown here.



Now, you may say that these look primitive and I stand to be challenged on that. The simpler the better is my experience to date. I have created more sophisticated jigs, but that is now more or less my philosophy in action.

Also, these changes tend to be rather minor and incremental. I accept that, but again as elsewhere in our industrial world today most of end products which appear to be epic are the result of constant incremental changes.

I have been proudly walking in the path...