It’s coming down to the wire; only two classes left! *Gulp.* I made some decent progress last week but not quite as much as I had hoped. My teacher said that he’s going to be at class a bit early tomorrow and so I’m going to show up early too to take advantage of the precious shop time left.
Here’s what I did last week:
I filled in a few gaps in the dovetail joints with wood putty and plugged the holes I drilled for the now-defunct lids. After the glue dries I will cut off the dowel and sand it so it’s flush with the side. You shouldn’t be able to see it too much.
I took the tape off the lids I glued together last week and drew out the dimensions of the lids.
And then I used a miter gauge on the table saw to cut rectangles out of the blanks.
Tomorrow I’m going to glue banding around the edges of the lids and cut them to size, sand the outsides of the boxes, and hopefully get the giveaway cutting board glued up. (Yeah, it’s become evident that I shouldn’t have spilled the beans about the giveaway until after it was finished. I’ll definitely get it finished at some point, if not before the holidays then in January. I feel bad that there might be a bit of a delay, but I’m trying my very best!)
Nice work! The designs are so pretty.