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Encountering the reverse grain that I keep hearing about

Today I experienced that infamous intertwining gain that I’ve heard about in African Mahogany (AM).

Tear out, yikes. I was able to minimize it with the scraper but it still needs some work. AM is an oddly softer wood and .. it .. loves .. to hang on .. to your chisels .. uh!

Lots of sharpening today. Oh and I got my tails cut out.

Some of us just laid around. The rest of us cut dovetails and did laundry.

Time to start the next project – Guild Build # 2 – The Flippin’ Potty Cabinet

Wall Cabinet – Dovetails laid out and partially cut

Yesterday – Side pieces pieces for the cabinet are milled to size, tails laid our and cut.

Next I’ll chisel out the waste and then lay out the pins. I used the dovetail saw guide to cut these.

So far, African Mahogany has been berry, berry good to me. Bell Forest seems to have sent over some pretty nice stuff.

Time to start the next project – Guild Build # 2 – The Flippin’ Potty Cabinet

Finished – two smaller confidence building projects

I put the final finish on the TV Table and finished up the wooden plane.

Derrick, teacher/owner of Puget Sound Woodworking, and I had great time shaping our wooden planes (he was building one for himself while teaching me how to make mine). So now I’m up to speed on building, shaping, tuning and sharpening the blade of a wooden plane.

I also used shellac finish for the first time .. and became a convert. However, now that I know that its really bug spit scarped off the bark of trees by some really poor folk, I’ll probably make sure I only buy what I absolutely need.

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Wooden Plane Progress

Table for the TV

Time to start the next project – Guild Build # 2 – The Flippin’ Potty Cabinet

While the finish on the TV table is drying, its time to think about the next project.

Now I know you all (both of you) have been wondering “whatever happened to that wall cabinet Marilyn was going to do”? Well, it finally time.

So the wood I have for this is African mahogany. I’ve never worked with African mahogany and I’m kinda worried about how it will plane, chisel, etc. We’ll see.

So why the nickname?? I was reading something a while ago (I can’t remember what) where Chris Schwarz was talking about building a wall cabinet over the toilet and he referred to it as the “flipping potty cabinet”. So mine was also named.