It is really freezing outside and it is not worth it to heat the workshop every day so I concentrated on other work this week. But I managed to do one board-related issue – rough gluing up of four two-colored boards.
Like I wrote last week, pure jatoba boards were getting on my nerves a bit so I decided to add some color. Literally – I am making boards with two colors.
I did make some small improvements to my drum sander.
Flattening the glued-up boards is unfortunately still a huge pain in the ass and decisively the most time-consuming step in the manufacturing process. And so far I came up with only one small improvement for the jig to span the boards when flattening the surface with a router.
Today, I almost did not write an article again because I was transferring my OS to a bigger hard drive and it did not go exactly smoothly. However, I succeeded after all and I have a fully functional PC again. So today I will write shortly about gluing the boards.
I did not publish anything last week because I totally and completely forgot about it. I continue making kitchen boards and am currently gluing up the third batch. Together with that, I am also continuing to improve my equipment. So today I would like to mention three improvements that I made "by the way".
Today just a little fun fact about the material I currently use to make kitchen boards.
I did manage to perform the announced test, so today I will write shortly about how it went.
Last time I finished with flat curved prefabricates with drilled out ends. With these I moved to the belt grinder with 40 grit belt.
I made the first handles by an ad-hoc method so it took relatively a lot of time. But since I intend to make a lot of boards this time, I decided to make jigs and make sixty handles in one batch.
