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Good Catch
I'm a mortise grip sort, and this experiment, along with sloth, is one reason why. Quickly sanded to 320 and set aside so I could get upstairs and get dinner fixed, as SWMBO was due in an hour. Felt pretty good about the concept and result at the time. Next development will be one gap side, if I can pull it off.
This morning I went down to hand sand with some 400, and horrors , I could feel a bit of a lump about 3 inches off the bottom. Curve wasn't fair. Though there was nothing visible, I knew if I decided to use a semi or full gloss finish, it would mock both the eye and hand. Better firewood than foolish, so I chucked it up. Pleased to have left myself the option.
Two thin passes with the gouge and a blend with soft velcro disks, and the curve was fair. Not that I have a vacuum chuck, but I think that would have been my only other holding option had I done a more exotic bottom, and a chancy one at that. It was a piece of firewood, and had come a little bit out of round sitting under the heat duct to dry. It's back there now, to spend a couple more days to stabilize.
Sometimes virtue comes out of necessity. Or is it fools and drunks?
I'm a mortise grip sort, and this experiment, along with sloth, is one reason why. Quickly sanded to 320 and set aside so I could get upstairs and get dinner fixed, as SWMBO was due in an hour. Felt pretty good about the concept and result at the time. Next development will be one gap side, if I can pull it off.
This morning I went down to hand sand with some 400, and horrors , I could feel a bit of a lump about 3 inches off the bottom. Curve wasn't fair. Though there was nothing visible, I knew if I decided to use a semi or full gloss finish, it would mock both the eye and hand. Better firewood than foolish, so I chucked it up. Pleased to have left myself the option.
Two thin passes with the gouge and a blend with soft velcro disks, and the curve was fair. Not that I have a vacuum chuck, but I think that would have been my only other holding option had I done a more exotic bottom, and a chancy one at that. It was a piece of firewood, and had come a little bit out of round sitting under the heat duct to dry. It's back there now, to spend a couple more days to stabilize.
Sometimes virtue comes out of necessity. Or is it fools and drunks?