dedee
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Well, my week home alone was not as productive as I had hoped. Hand planning timber takes time - especially when a small piece of grit takes not one but two chunks out of a plane blade and left two nasty scratches on the plane sole (LN 164). It took me half a day to get the scratches out of the sole and even now they are still visible on the adjustable mouth.
I should have used an older plane for the roughing down stage but the wood I am working on (cedar) is soft & with the mouth open and blade well down the curlies just kept coming....
The other faux pas was on the table saw. I was cutting some tenons flat on the table saw using a secondary fence clamped to the main fence and well short of the blade. I had cut a number of them the previous day without a hitch.
The second batch did not look right, the first tenon seemed longer than the ones I had cut the day before. For some reason I did not stop to check. It must be right I thought - just an illusion.
When finished I placed the tenoned pieces over the the upright parts of the frame and measured - I had lost 1 cm. How?
Well that secondary fence although perfectly straight had one side shorter than the other - I had somehow managed to turn it over before clamping it to the fence. I stopped for the day and had a beer!
As it turns out that 1 cm will not affect the finished piece but 2 lessons learnt. 1) Cut all the tenons for a project in one go
2) Measure 20 times and cut once.
Andy
I should have used an older plane for the roughing down stage but the wood I am working on (cedar) is soft & with the mouth open and blade well down the curlies just kept coming....
The other faux pas was on the table saw. I was cutting some tenons flat on the table saw using a secondary fence clamped to the main fence and well short of the blade. I had cut a number of them the previous day without a hitch.
The second batch did not look right, the first tenon seemed longer than the ones I had cut the day before. For some reason I did not stop to check. It must be right I thought - just an illusion.
When finished I placed the tenoned pieces over the the upright parts of the frame and measured - I had lost 1 cm. How?
Well that secondary fence although perfectly straight had one side shorter than the other - I had somehow managed to turn it over before clamping it to the fence. I stopped for the day and had a beer!
As it turns out that 1 cm will not affect the finished piece but 2 lessons learnt. 1) Cut all the tenons for a project in one go
2) Measure 20 times and cut once.
Andy
