More Happy Mistakes

[mn pete]

Re-working some more challenges into something new. It's kind of fun to come back to something that didn't quite work out with a fresh new idea.

http://secondwindworkshop.blogspot.com/ ... takes.html

 

[nicguthrie]

Looking nice! I look forward to seeing the lids I'm pretty new to the scene and my wife really fancies the look of wenge, is it always that brittle? Would a bandsaw splinter it as badly? I specialise in small jobs like that almost completely, isn't it a great feeling when you can "unblock" a job that's gone wrong and put it right like that?

With the sandpaper / glass trim up sheet, you're singing from the same song-sheet that I do with all my small jobs. I can't recall where I read about it, or heard of it, or if I just made it up for a job, but what I do, is to take abrasive sheet from a roll and super-glue it to waste MDF sheets. Some flat, for finishing exactly like your glass one, and others trimmed to the width of the paper, with it wrapped around 3 sides of the MDF piece. Those make a nice mobile version with 3 edges that will rub harmlessly over the wood, and one that will cut in, plus the two flat sides to flatten & finish. Ideal sanding blocks for inside corners and small stuff.

I know, if I was better with a plane, and owned a collection of small and specialised ones, they'd do a better job in most cases, but the number of scrap bits of MDF and 4" sections of abrasive that I'd need to save to make up for the price of the planes would be rather a lot

Nic

 

[ColeyS1]

Give us a hint then. What have you been re-working :-?

 

[mn pete]

I've always found Wenge to be very beautiful and unforgiving...prone to chipping out and splintering because it's pretty dense and brittle. Those splinters are a real bugger too, especially since most folks are sensitive to the wood itself.

I do think a band saw would be better than the table saw though.

It's pretty amazing how versatile sandpaper is! It's hard to remember that it can really become an exceptional fine tuning tool.

Coley, I'm re-working a couple Padauk boxes that didn't turn out quite right. I'm using strips of Wenge inlay to change up the look and cover the mistep. Check out that link in my post for all the details and pictures.