Some Weekend Ploughing

[Maurice Metzger]

Using some pine leftovers to make doors for a small set of shelves I made for the basement a while ago. Very clear pine with pretty straight grain, which makes the planing easy. Shooting for stub tenons, so I went as deep as I could, which is about 5/8" with my plane.

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In the shot below you can't see the thin pieces of pine glued to one of the tenons I cut too thin. Might be best not to focus on the tenons at all... :-) Another mistake was not holding the plane completely upright, so one of the grooves is slightly tilted, but all in all it's not too bad.

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And the cleanup.

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Enjoy your shavings everyone!

[Jon Toebbe]

Dontcha just love those curly ribbons of cleanly cut wood? My daughter's classroom has a pet rat, and I offered her teacher a bagful of similar shavings for bedding. "Oh no," she replied, "we don't use any fancy packing material, just plain wood chips." :)

Come to think of it, they might make a nice stuffing material for Christmas presents...

[Jim Koepke]

When one of my daughters lived closer, she would take the shavings to the school where she teaches arts & crafts. The kids would glue them to paper bags to make puppets like those in the Fandango commercials.

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