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Ok, got my table mostly ready, every so often I run a plane over the top to clean it up more. I will be doing that for some time to come.
Got the aprons ready, not finished yet but ready.
Need to do the Well board yet, but later for that.
Got the rails cut to size and ready for the tenon.
So, started on the mortises today. On purpose I picked one of the worst ones to start with, one huge knot going everywhere. But not a tight looking knot. I took way too long laying out my lines, but didn’t want to make a mistake. I marked them, left, came back later a couple times to see if it was still the same or if I had made a mistake. All was good.
Just by chance I have a marking tool like the one Paul used. Really, I bought it a while back only because it looked like a nice piece of history art to me. It is a new copy though. Little did I know I would really use it.
So I made my cut lines and started in on the first mortise. That teak is indeed hard wood. It went so slow at first I thought it would take a week just for one mortise. But as I got the hole a little further along, it started giving in to me. Paul guessed a half hour, took him a lot less. I got about 2 hours in the first mortise, and am half way through on one side. Measured. So far it’s looking real good. However, they are going to take me a few days. Some days I have a full 8 hours to play with wood, other days like today, I had only a couple hours. Funny, being retired I thought I was supposed to have all the time I wanted for my hobby. Hmmmmm. Wife has other ideas.