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I'm gluing up 3 pieces of maple so I will be ready to put the picture pattern on to the wood. Not ever being a woodworker but sold oil field equipment all his life he wants to know every thing I do when I first start with a project because none of the tools and equipment are familiar with him but does have the money to get what he needs. I wasn't that lucky or that smart when I should have been getting smart so I could face life in a more easier fashion. I had planned a bunch of pieces of ruff maple last summer so I was ready to cut the pieces to length, run them through the jointer and glue them up. This is the clamps I use to keep everything in line or else I would have to use the drum sander to get it all flat so I could sand it smooth. This was glued up yesterday so this morning I took the clamps off so I could do the scrapper thingy to the extra glue squeeze out. I then replaced the clamps so he will see what I did before he gets here. And after using the clamps and the card scraper to remove the dried glue I didn't even have to run the piece through the drum sander or use the electric hand sander either... Not being a smart --- for it has taken me years of learning to do the things now that makes wood working a pleasure to do. After removing the clamps I will start with applying the clear Scotch brand shipping tape to one side of the glued up boards. I then will spray the glue on to the clear shipping tape with the glue that will secure the picture so I can scroll saw the picture to pieces. I started doing it in these steps because after I moved on to larger projects. I use to spray the back of the patterns but I ruined a few pictures because before I could smooth the large pictures out on to the wood they would fold over on to themselves and there is no way to pull them apart. Then I had to go and have Rapid Resizer enlarge another picture the size of the wood and the little printer would print out another to use...lots of time wasted there so this was the reason I started spraying the glue on to the clear tape. I try to change everything I did wrong that caused me problems. If guys spray the backs of the patterns instead of on to the clear tape its his way of doing things that's fine with me. It just didn't work trying to install large patterns. So now I get my wife to come in and hold the top part of the picture while I guide the other end on to the sprayed glue thats on the clear tape. Now if its a very small item and maybe I want to carve something thats round and not flat this is what I use. rub it on the wood and stick the pattern on then the residue comes off easy. This is what wife uses when she switches over to her sewing thingy's. More later!
