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Aug. 30th, 2008

Box!

Aug. 30th, 2008 05:56 am
I made a box tonight! As of, about 12 hours ago, it was a board, and now it is gluing up. It is not a pretty box, nor does it serve any particular purpose in mind save education, but it is my box and it is the first object I have ever done dovetails in (as opposed to practicing them on scrap wood). Naturally, there are many important lessons I have learned today. But the most important one is this:
  • Just because it came off a power panel saw does not mean that it is square.
  • Other lessons )
I have no idea what I am going to do with my new box when it finishes gluing. It is not the prettiest thing in the world and I am tempted to burn it, but perhaps I can find something less pyromaniacal to do with it, like store my waterstones in it or something. I do like working with poplar, though; pity it's so ugly.

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