Christopher Schwarz’s coffer chest is a exceptional instance of woodworking craftsmanship, with its joinery constructed utilizing nothing however tongues and grooves. To create this joinery, Schwarz employs a tongue-and-groove airplane—an ingenious instrument that cuts each tongues and grooves. You want solely to rotate the airplane’s fence to alter between chopping tongues or grooves. The airplane is designed to middle on 3/4-in. inventory, leaving 1/4-in.-wide tongues and grooves.
On this video, Anissa Kapsales provides a recent tackle this basic venture by reimagining the standard building course of. As a substitute of counting on the tongue-and-groove airplane, she makes use of a desk noticed to chop all of the joinery. By way of this adaptation, Kapsales demonstrates that, whereas the instruments and strategies might change, the general design and performance of the piece stay unaffected.
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