Sunday, January 30, 2011

wash, rinse, repeat


How to go from this to this in three easy steps:

Step 1: PRACTICE

Step 2: PRACTICE

Step 3: PRACTICE


Seriously, I don't care how many fine tools you own, all glittery and sharp, or patinaed and worn, if you don't use them, well, you know.

No amount of book reading, magazine subscriptions, sacrifices to a pagan god (though they do work great for me) web sites, chat rooms, blogs, or Tweets will ever get you a fine, smooth, properly dimensioned board like practice. Maybe you'll get lucky once, or have an easy grained piece, but to get consistent, equally dimensional (at least as far as need be) results, you need to spend hours a day, days a week and every damn moment you can squeeze in.

You already know the process.

grab the lowest tpi saws you have and cut that stuff, remember to add a quarter inch on every side


get one good edge and cut another piece


joint that mother to the first


and wait for glue to dry

(or in my case, bring them inside, wait to let them warm up, wait for the glue to set, bring them back outside)

find a good face, whatever planes you need to get there

make the other face good


mark, cut and plane your ends

mark, cut and plane your last edge

now do it how ever many times you have to to get it right!

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