I ignored woodworking for too long this winter. I got out to the shop yesterday with a couple of boards from out in the yard, and made the first one into a seven and a half foot long baseboard for the kitchen. To make things really simple, it was also seven and a half inches tall, by the standard three quarters of an inch. I broke my bandsaw blade while cutting it down, which was a bummer! So the second board, only four feet long rough, I cut by hand. I suspect that is where I got my shoulder to feel likke it does today. Feels like I have a couple of sore tendons or something!
I did the bigger part of the planing with my favorite hand plane, which I call the scallop plane, but is properly known as the scrub plane. I person does most of the work with it. Set it to cut deep and things go quickly, getting the board more or less straight, cleaning out the cup and the bow a bit. Even the straight edge can be worked to more or less in line.
At any rate, I have the short board down to two straight edges whcih I will parallel after I finish the faces. I am going to push this thing through the power planer to get the faces parallel to eachother. Or is it coplaner? Whichever. It will gdt a hand planing to finishe the surfaces and have it looking fairly authentic in it’s place in the 1916 portion of the house. It has got to have a place to fit an over plug in it. There are two pipes coming through that wall, as well, right down where I am putting it. So it requires some work to get it finsihed and ready to keep back mice from under the wall where the lathe and plaster meet the floor, or don’t meet, really, which is the problem.
When all that is done, I hacve a cupboard to repair and make so the mouse or mice won’t get into it again. Some little fellow has been getting all round in it, and messing everything up. Looks almost like a nest, there is so much mess. There have been holes cut throught the cabinet to get a water supply through it in the past to get it to a fridge for the ice maker and water dispenser. Those days are long gone.
I have my table on the workbench in the shop still. I have been busy these past few weeks dealing with problems as they have come up. I’d like to get that done soon.
The shop needs a cleaning. I was sawing in it yesterday and got myself in a bad position and hurt my shoulder. That’s what I have decided it was, anyway. After much thought. All for the sake of a pile of scraps that was too close to the workbench. I can be such a fool.