February 11, 20169 yr 3 hours ago, Cliff said: What 'r you topping? 1 My sister has me making a heavy duty kitchen work table, for her minister. He wanted a butcher block top but with random lengths pieces. The top is 30" x 72". 1 1/2" thick. The strips are a little over 1 3/4" wide. Clamping across the strips, as well as the length, really is time-consuming. I can only glue a strip at a time. I'm making the top in 4 segments so I can run them thru the planer and get everything pretty flat. I'll finish up with belt/random orbit/hand scraper (I hope!)
February 11, 20169 yr Author 10 minutes ago, lew said: butcher block top but with random lengths pieces. hmmmm that's an interesting thing to ask for. I'd normally think people wanted full run pieces which commercially is more expensive. Anyway it sounds like a lot of work are you using a finger joint on the end grain joints?
February 11, 20169 yr 10 minutes ago, Cliff said: Anyway it sounds like a lot of work are you using a finger joint on the end grain joints? 1 Splines. Thought about the finger joints but opted for the spines (didn't have to buy a special router bit). I'm using a few full-length pieces interspersed in the field and one on each outside edge.
February 11, 20169 yr Author The top and the curse of plentiful squeeze out I used maybe 2/3s of a quart of glue on this. THE CURSE OF THE SQUEEZE OUT is how to get rid of it I usually use a little crank neck chisel I made by bending the tang But I noticed that some of the squeeze out was adhering so well that it bulled wood up with it so ~~~~~~~~~~ I called on my 40 year old friend She's a sweet one, she is. Well mannered and almost never digs in. Ahhh lookit dat Almost time for the drum sander And I can almost her it saying "Wha-da-ya-mean, ALMOST?" Lookin good
February 11, 20169 yr Is that a Makita sander? Nice work. Better to have too much than not enough glue.
February 12, 20169 yr Author yah that's a makita. Had it forever. I've used it for the same jobs one would prefer to put in a widebelt sander. I even used it to sand a floor in a house I had in Maine.
February 17, 20169 yr Author It thawed so I got back in the shop and did a little drum sanding A few passed later and lookit what I got
February 17, 20169 yr Author 5 minutes ago, lew said: Gluten free flour?? Make the crust for those pies that we remember from those endless road trip vacations
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