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17 June 2017 at 6:51 pm #313022
I haven’t read the whole thread/all the pages, but I was reading through (and looking at the awesome pics!) the first few posts, and this is just a fantastic topic/thread thingy! What a great, courageous way to document your first efforts at working wood! I’ve been pondering how to do that, myself, (document my first “real” efforts at working wood) because I thought 1: I’d appreciate the record some day in the future, and 2: maybe someone could learn from my example/inevitable screw-ups etc…
But I’d been thinking that I needed to figure out some kind of video set-up or something, which adds yet another layer of difficulty/stress to the whole thing, y’know? Because then, not only do I need tools for working wood, but I need a camera, a way to hold the camera, editing software, learning how to *use* editing software, a mic, etc, etc, etc…
*stops rambling* *sheepish expression*ANYway, what I’m getting at is, this format (pictures and a written description) seems like a much less stressful way of documenting my early, crude efforts than trying to make sure I have a camera set up to capture every step of the process, start to finish. I suppose it’s kind of obvious, but until I saw this post my brain was stubbornly stuck on a “you need to make videos” mode. So, thank you for helping me change that! 🙂
Oh, and *thank you* for being so open about you missteps and so on! I haven’t even tried to cut a dovetail (or edge-glue boards) yet, but I hope my first ones look even half (or a quarter) as good as yours did/do! Awesome.
-Luca
25 January 2017 at 5:38 am #308681It took me a second to realize you were making a joke about the shavings from the jack plane… I was picturing a contraption that had some kind of circular blade powered by a giant hamster. Because that’s how my mind works… I laughed both times, too! (First, when I imagined the giant hamster contraption, second when I noticed the photo and figured out the *actual* joke) *shrugs helplessly*
I don’t have a workbench yet myself (indeed, I still need to get my new (old) tools in working order…and figure out how much pitting is *too* much for an old rip saw to still be salvageable…) so I wish you the very best of luck! -
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