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  • This topic has 14 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 1 month ago by Anonymous.
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  • Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 7:19 am #5299

    Hey Paul. Are you marking your reference faces when you make your knife wall or are you just memorizing which two are your square references? You’re flipping boards around so fast I cant tell. ; )

    Also, how are you keeping track of which board goes into which dado and which edge is “up”?

    Best.

    Jeff-Texas

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    Paul Sellers
    20 December 2012 at 9:00 am #5305

    We are about to do a post on reference faces; to clear up any and all ambiguity.
    I personally no longer need to mark mt reference faces because I remember them every time I pick up my square, knife and gauge. That said, it’s important we do register correctly. Here is a point though. Most people actually use dimensioned stock straight from the machine, which, unlike hand sawn hand planed stock will be dead parallel and dead square and dead straight. This has influenced how and what we do. As a result, it’s not technically necessary to use reference faces as it was in times past. We will cover this in a much fuller way in a giveaway YouTube very soon.

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 9:39 am #5309

    Thanks Paul, good job

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 4:16 pm #5340

    Thanks Paul. I guess 40 years practicing your craft will do that. If you saw all of the writing and marks on my boards, you’d probably chuckle. At one point last week, I had edge “A”, the face mark, the edge mark,  and an arrow pointing up written on a board. I flipped it over to make a knifewall, and it had edge “C” and another face mark written on it. Great, now what was I supposed to do? I need a secretary. ; )

    When I get famous for my woodwork in the future, the guys on the Antique Roadshow won’t have any problem identifying my work with all the marks on it. No need to even sign it.

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    John Poutier
    20 December 2012 at 4:19 pm #5341

    That Jeff….is funny!

    Yorktown, Virginia

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 4:34 pm #5344
    Anonymous wrote:

    Thanks Paul. I guess 40 years practicing your craft will do that. If you saw all of the writing and marks on my boards, you’d probably chuckle. At one point last week, I had edge “A”, the face mark, the edge mark, and an arrow pointing up written on a board. I flipped it over to make a knifewall, and it had edge “C” and another face mark written on it. Great, now what was I supposed to do? I need a secretary. ; ) When I get famous for my woodwork in the future, the guys on the Antique Roadshow won’t have any problem identifying my work with all the marks on it. No need to even sign it.

    Nice one Jeff.  just say It’s a writing desk buddy. 🙂

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    kelly
    20 December 2012 at 4:39 pm #5346

    Jeff, you crack me up. 🙂

    Paul, I’m looking forward to that video you referenced above regarding reference faces

     

    Texas, USA

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 7:06 pm #5357

    Yep, a hundred years from now scholars will be writing books about me and my furniture. Was he dyslexic, a genius, a savant? Did he cut his ear off on purpose or was it truly a hand-planing accident? Are the markings on his furniture a secret code to the Aztec city of gold?

    Nope. He failed “Reference Marking” day at Paul Seller’s woodworking school. Fame is within my grasp guys.

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 7:28 pm #5361

    Pmsl Jeff 😀  I opened this page just as I began drinking a fresh cup of coffee and reference marked my entire keyboard in Nescafe as I read your posts. 😀  Le Chef (Otherwise known as SWMBO or Mrs P) is as baffled as ever 🙂

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 7:29 pm #5362

    HaHa love it Jeff. I have been dyslexic all my life, when it really shows is when I cut the same piece of wood three times and its still to short .

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 8:17 pm #5370

    Sorry about that Gary. I’ll try to time my comments around your coffee time in the future. “..reference marked my entire keyboard..” Classic. Hope it didn’t ruin it. ; )

    LMAO Ken. When I used to frame houses, the first day on the job, the boss sent me down the street to ask another crew boss for a “board stretcher”. Sounded good a the time, as I was 14 and brilliant. I didn’t fall for that one again.

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    kelly
    20 December 2012 at 8:47 pm #5372

    LAFFS!

    Texas, USA

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 9:10 pm #5374

    HaHa Jeff, I remember being sent to the stores for a long stand. First and last, I stayed away for hours 🙂

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 9:12 pm #5375

    Ya’ll remember this thread because one day you’ll be able to tell your grandchildren you knew the guy who started the “asymmetric period” of woodworking.

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    Anonymous
    20 December 2012 at 9:25 pm #5377

    I’m gonna start drinking my coffee through a straw lol 😉

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