3 hours ago, Cliff said:

What  'r you topping?

 

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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!)

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?

 

10 minutes ago, Cliff said:

Anyway it sounds like a lot of work  are you  using a finger joint on the end  grain joints?

 

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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.

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

 

Is that a Makita sander?

Nice work.

Better to have too much than not enough glue.

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.

 

It thawed so I got back in the shop and did a little drum sanding

 

 

A few passed later and lookit what I got

 

Gluten free flour??

5 minutes ago, lew said:

Gluten free flour??

 

Make the crust for those pies that we remember  from those endless  road trip vacations