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This is beside the point, but last night before bed, I took one 5 mg Melatonin tablet to help me sleep. Whew! I won’t be doing that again! I don’t think it helped much last night, but I’ve been trying to wake up all day. And to think I almost took two of them. I…
Rough Mortise
Mortising is quite a learning experience. I have seven more to go on this bench. By then, I should be much better. There is a lot of cleaning up to do on this first mortise. I’m going to take another look at the videos from Paul Sellers. He has some great ideas. And this video…
Nice Legs
We now have four legs, each fabricated from SYP 2x4s. The next step is to each pair of these legs into left and right bench supports. Each of these supports will be angled toward the center at 15° off the vertical, thus providing rigidity for hand plane activity.
And the Winner is Shellac
Often the question arises: what do I use to finish my furniture? Here is the answer.
Burnisher
Paul Sellers has some great tips on how to burnish a card scraper.