This week woodworking went really well. Last week I ran into some issues and so this week I came prepared with a list of tasks I wanted to accomplish and I pretty much got them all done.
I made some good progress on my box lids and also on my cuttings boards. These first boards are for my jewelry box lids.
I cut the blanks I glued up into strips and then flipped every other strip over to form a checkered pattern.
Then I glued them together, paying special attention to matching up the lines.
The panels after gluing (left to right): purpleheart and curly maple, walnut and bloodwood, and African lacewood and maple.
My unfortunately non-square cutting board.You can kind of see how the strips shifted while they were being glued and it turned into more of a parallelogram instead of a rectangle. Lame.
After I trimmed the edges off on the band saw it looked more squarish.
I went over the edges on a router so they would be slightly rounded.
And then I started sanding the surface of the board.I have some more sanding to do next week and then I’ll slap a couple of coats of mineral oil on it and call it good. It still won’t be totally square but after giving myself a mental pep talk I’ve managed to let go of the notion that it needs to be absolutely perfect. I’m okay with it being slightly wonky. (It helps that it’s only for myself and not someone else).
I also re-sawed and re-glued the other cutting board that was having issues. So I think I’m in good shape for next week. Who knows, I might actually have time to make E a toy afterall.
OMG, those are gorgeous. Even the "mistake" one looks pretty good. There's a place in Minnesota that makes oldfashioned wooden pull toys, near a town called Red Wing. (I keep forgetting what the store is called… hold on… gotta love google! http://www.larktoys.com/)
Sometimes the 'mistake' pieces have much more personality to them. all the pieces look beautiful!
So pretty! I especially love the one with the darker woods. It's so unique and beautiful. Your mistake one is lovely, too.
That's so cool!!!! Good job for fixing the parallelogram 😀
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It's gorgeous, Faith. I couldn't see this alleged "not square" issue.
It looks beautiful! I'm so jealous that you get to do this. It looks like so much fun! 🙂