A Tape Shooter Addendum

Should have placed this with the post below.

Details of the tape shooter.  This was an add on to the rolling cart a few years after completing it.  I'm not quite sure why it never felt right visually.  Maybe I chose to keep the wood just a might too thick because it has always felt a bit clunky.

The shaft was constructed like so.  First sawed the block into an 8 sided form, then cut grooves to hold the splines. I put a chamfer on each spline to reduce friction while pulling the tape.  Lastly I cut a male dovetail in the end.

And those two male dovetails slide ever so nicely in the female receivers.  The cutter is a piece of bandsaw blade.