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The Book Of The Pulpit
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But we have to be so careful! The cuts are difficult and we don’t have much extra wood
available for recovering from any mistakes.
The Lesson from Past Experience: PROTOTYPE & PRACTICE!
Which is why we bought and prepped the poplar board for today’s effort.
Down to work! First we run the poplar board through the table saw to clean up the edges
(Rip Cut). This also makes it the same width as our Curly Maple board.
Next we set up the band saw. We check to make sure that the band saw table is
perpendicular to the blade, set up the fence and start cutting. Strange, we are having to
push harder than we expect to feed the board through. What’s that? Smoke is coming out
of the cut – something is wrong! STOP THE SAW!
Charlie could not join us in the Shop today, but we need his input, woodworking teams
are required to have cell phones so we can give him a call. Charlie says that the probable
cause of the problem is a dull blade! This explains both the need to push hard and the
smoke caused by the friction of “rubbing” wood off rather than “cutting” it.
Charlie has other band-saw blades, but not what we really want. Time to break for lunch
and then stop at the wood-working tool shop on the way back to buy a new blade.
The wood-working gods must be pleased with our efforts, the wood-working tool shop
has exactly the blade we want by the manufacture we want and it only costs $30.00. We
take the saw apart and install the new blade.
Back to the poplar test board which now slides through the blade much more easily. The
cut is done so we get out the micrometer and check our efforts.
More practice is necessary! The thickness of the board we re-cut varies too much, and
varies from top to bottom as well. What we need is a better fence: Something really solid
that will provide a full seven inches of support for the board as we slide it through.
Again, we are thankful for the lesson of prototyping.
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