Blog 5


At the beginning of this week I went to the shop twice. Again I went to work flattening some more boards. You have to make sure you do the flattening right or you could mess up the slap and the future of the project. You have to make sure you go slow and steady so the blade will not rip up the wood but you also have to make sure not to go to slow. If you go to slow the blade will linger on the wood and burn it. So that day I got better at flattening just from practice and getting more of a feel for the speed and technique needed to cut well. After the flattening I did more sanding on the boards I worked on before trying to get the lines out from the previous sands. Next I started to finish a table someone else had assembled. Finishing is the final sanding and oiling of a piece. At first I had to sand off the epoxy that was put into the cracks and divots in the table to keep it together and level. I did that sanding with the belt sander and then I had to use a different sander and the rotational setting to just sand over the epoxy spots. Next I used the orbital sand mode on the 80 grade sand paper to sand the whole table. Then I sanded the whole thing with, 120, then 180 grade. By this point the table is extremely smooth. Next we used the router to cut the edge off the table. We didn’t want the edge to be sharp so you run the router around the edge and it cuts it just the tiniest bi
t so it is not a 90 degree angle but has 3 sides. You do this before the final sand because sometimes the router leaves marks on the table and you want to be able to remove those before the final oiling.


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