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I have some white pine boards I have been saving to build a trestle table. I made a viking coffee table about two years ago out of the white pine as a practice run. The table has stood up well.
I finished it with a cherry dye. Starting with a dilute solution, blotching was not a problem. But I did not put enough coats of the oil base acrylic finish on top of it so I plan on refinishing the top. The base looks good.
Please keep posting on your progress.Clean wood shavings are great for cleaning excess glue off of projects after glue up. Just make sure there is no sawdust mixed in with it.
I did bag them and throw it out with the trash and felt guilty about it.
So then I try to find if someone would use it for animal bedding or perhaps in a smoker, no luck.
So I decided to try composting and perhaps as mulch.I work in my basement and it can get quite damp in the summer. Corrosion of my tools has not been a problem. Although once a year I treat my hand tools with Protec Tool wax polish that I obtained from Lee Valley. My main problem are with projects built during the damp summer months, the wood then shrinks during the winter. The opposite happens in the summer, although after one year of contraction and expansion the wood seems to stabilize.
There are many irrational fears out there. Some people have a fear of heights other of clowns. I have an irrational fear of sharp objects spinning at high speeds. Which is why I started using hand tools. I love doing wood working but I haven’t touch my router in three years.
The bench planer is the best power tool I have bought. If I was only allow to buy one power tool it would be a bench plane. I find I can flatten a board quickly with my scrub plane so I don’t miss not having a jointer. And boards that are badly warped I don’t use
At times I had to resaw by hand when the board is too wide for my bandsaw. I made an interesting discovery, the handsaw that I bought as designed for a rip cut was actually designed for cross cutting. I never filed a saw before but I did recut the teeth on my saw and there was a big improvement. (My eyesight is not great.)
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