David Weaver helps my practical planing

not sure what went wrong...

David Weaver

I think it's up now, nothing special, but does provide some look at what's sanded and what's not. The finish is shellac, with some depth but not as much as a commercial guitar. If there were scratches from sanding, it fills them and makes them go away.

I always like talking to george because he talks about two things:

1) what should it look like (first proportions, then what's tasteful after that's taken care of as far as standards of appearance)

2) what should it do well (applicable to instruments - don't know much about furniture and how that would apply, but feel and sound things for instruments are pretty important - even simple ones like the lego-style-fender type guitars)

If he only talked about processes to do things, I'd never remember any of it.

Re: george broke my heart one day...

Charlie

I see the photo now... looks great to me.

Re: george broke my heart one day...

David Weaver

In the world of guitars, fenders are a four foot uphill putt. If made with moderate care, they turn out great.

trying to scrape the roundovers and having them absorb less buttonlac and be a different color is missing the put. Leaving out the roundovers and making a guitar that instantly draws "that doesn't look like a telecaster" is missing the putt. sanding the whole thing or at least sanding the rounded parts and on to the next hole.

(a neck like that is easy to build with hand tools. I'm sure it's easy to build with power tools, but wouldn't know how to stage it and have control over contour, or probably even do it as fast).

Re: george broke my heart one day...

Charlie

What I know about instrument making wouldn't fill a thimble. I know it is highly exacting work that would translate to just about any other woodworking somebody would ever care to do.

Re: your's is a curious claim

Charlie

Wow, super crisp. Love the grain match across the fronts of the side-by-side drawers.

Re: your's is a curious claim

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

only wood workers notice the effort I spend on wood grain. I often spend hours and move hundreds of bdft of lumber to pick wood. Thanks for noticing and commenting.

Re: your's is a curious claim

Charlie

First thing I noticed after taking in the overall execution of a wonderful piece of furniture.

to your credit...

David Weaver

when I chucked together a tall cabinet last year, I hand resawed the panels so that they'd match, and don't remember how much I said about that.

You picked it out right away. There was nothing out of this world about the panels (they were just from a plain sawn board), but thinking like one would for a guitar, it seemed a good idea if they were plain that they should at least match.

If anyone else has ever seen that, nobody has said anything.

(fairly sure the door on the right isn't glued yet in this picture).

The continuity in the top two rows of drawers on your cabinet is a gift that just gives every time you look at it.

Faulty Memory *LINK*

Warren in Lancaster, PA

I built this piece a year before you claim to have taught me how to put the face molding on it

I mentioned April 2006 in my post. You may have started making the chest in 2005, but you finished the mouldings in May 2006. Check out the archives.

You could be more careful about making spurious claims.


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