How to cut dovetails slowly
Four hours is a long time for through dovetails. Watching Rob Cosman and Frank Klausz bang out dovetails made me feel like a glacier.
Read MoreHow to avoid cutting dovetails
I kept trying to rationalize my procrastination by repeating Lincolns quote about chopping down a tree in four hours by sharpening his ax for the first three.
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Then I started resawing. I almost immediately knew I was in trouble. It took a long time to get a nice straight kerf across the 11” end grain. At about 30 minutes, I was only about 3” down both edges. I kept at it, and at two hours, I was about 80% done.
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Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what I should be doing with my time. There’s so much I can be doing. It’s overwhelming.
Read MoreThe virtues of a clean shop
One of the major advantages to hand tools is the ability to change tools, and thereby tasks, with virtually no “setup” time. Having every tool and a bunch of garbage on your bench, as well as no clear horizontal spaces, seriously retards this advantage.
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