The Cheeseboard
I am still uncertain if it’s “cheeseboard” or “cheese board”. The first one is what the dictionary had in it so I’m sticking with that for now.
It wasn’t on my list of things to make. After watching Jill and the bread cooling rack from last week (here), I knew she’d really want a cheeseboard to match. So, while she was outside working on the weeds I went to the garage and made the decision to go slow and go accurate.
Here’s the video!
It started with a 3.5 inch board about 47.5 inches long. Re-sawing the strips from it until I had enough, I aimed for straight cuts. I did pretty good when I focused on as little pressure downward as I could. This is the way I use my backsaws and they usually end up right on. Practice should perfect this, though I’ll still be making a frame saw later on.
I laminated the pieces together and let it set for an hour. There was little glue squeeze out so I’m getting better at judging glue needs. Then I made the tongue and groove joints. I went real slowly with this to make sure I got the fit correct. In time I’m sure I’ll be able to do this much more quickly. For the tongue, initial 3/16ths could have been removed much more quickly. I was just more concerned with crisp lines. The joints turned out better than I expected. Though not perfect so there is still plenty of room for improvement.
The thing I love most about hand planes is the thing I love least about woodwork, sanding. Usually a hand plane finish is too smooth for a lot of finishes to stick to. You have to actually sand it so you can finish it, which means lightly sanding. I did my usual shellac finish and will need to get more supplies to do better ‘french-ish’ style finishing.
Side note, I did finally find a store that had shellac flakes! Funny part was NO ONE even in the store knew what it was (or where it comes from). I got to educate them!
Anyways, a video is on it’s way.
Thanks,
phil
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