I have had a pretty productive week or so.
I'm close to finishing putting all the nails and screws in. Only about 80 screws to go. Lost count of how many I have put in, for nails it must be over a thousand and for screws something like 500. Had a bit of trouble with them today, not sure why, but managed to strip the head of about 20. Got really good at getting them out quickly using a ezy-out.
I have also bought a new blade for my band-saw. I had a little oops as I was setting it up and the blade bit into the table, but it still seems to cut okay. So I spent an hour practising cutting veneers. My test pieces were only about 800mm long, and the real trick will be the 3m long pieces, but so far so good.
I then ran my practise pieces through the thicknesser and have ended up with some nice examples at about 4.2mm thick.
Tomorrow will be finishing screwing, filling up a few holes that were "misses" and generally preparing for putting the seal coats on.
This means that next week I should be full steam into veneer manufacture. I don't have a lot of timber for that at the moment, but enough to get me going.
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