Serenity - May 11 2006
Well I started the slots for the recess area I was working on. The plan was to cut thin strips of 2 different material thickness'. I would then use the thickness of one to use as a gauge to give me the step. Make sense? Well the thin strips were too flexible that I could not set them up to start gluing so I eyeballed the first 2 strips. I then tried to put the edge on a flush surface to glue the second thicker strip. This alternated between eyeballing the thin recessed strip and putting the edge on a flat surface to add the next thicker strip
I marked the edge with a black marker to try and help make it easier to see teh edge as I lined them up. Well it turned out to be a mess and I had to abandon this idea and thin kof a new one
So the idea of using the chopper to cut the same width strips came up. I would use the back edge of the strips to line them up. If the thicker strips were slightly wider by lining up the back edges I would get what I want.
The think strips were no problem
The thicker strips were a problem. The blade would go through them but due to the thickness it created quit a bit of force against my stop. This pushed the stop back and my width of the thicker pieces started to get wider. Of course I didn't that until later and I had to do some adjustments
The first one glued up
The back edge is where I glued it all together
The second one done. Interestingly even with the chopper there was very tiny variations in the width of the thicker parts. The moving end stop sure didn't help. Well this made the face uneven and noticeable to the eye
So I had to file and sand teh face and then clean it up. The lower one has been sanded and cleaned up while the upper one shows the variations. The top one now needs work to clean up
Done
A template is started to show where the insert will be
Start of template beside the just made parts
Second mould pulled
and 3rd one poured