{"id":126,"date":"2014-04-13T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.mykos.org\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-04-13T21:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T04:02:56","slug":"stem-strips-and-some-sawhorses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Stem strips and some sawhorses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was fun with hardwood. I have a small pile of dogwood I cut up a couple years ago before I even decided to build the canoe. I need some hard wood for the outer stems so I’m having a go with the dogwood. The outer stems need to be tough as they take a fair amount of abuse. Dogwood is one of the hardest woods we have around here so it seems like a good choice. The trick is getting the length I require out of a single piece. I got one of the stems out of this chunk here.<\/p>\n

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After hewing and planing it square and cutting it down to size, three strips was all I could get in the length I needed.<\/p>\n

\"maple<\/a><\/p>\n

For the decks I’m trying to go with a very curly piece of maple I saved from the firewood pile. I cut this slab out with the chainsaw so now I need to bring it flat. The grain is very wild which makes it challenging to work but should make the finished decks really eye catching. If there’s enough thickness left in the slab I’d love to try and saw it in half and use the same piece for both decks.<\/p>\n

\"maple<\/a><\/p>\n

After some serious elbow grease, here it is relatively flat. Lots left to go but my arms had had enough of fighting the grain and taking deep shavings to level the board quickly. Though I have my #4 smoothing plane in the picture here, most of the grunt work was done with my #7 jointer set fairly deep. The smoothing plane was just to peek at the grain and see how it’s going to be best to attack it for the final finish when it’s cut to size. Which won’t be until the canoe is in its final stages.<\/p>\n

My other project today was to build some sawhorses. To rip the strips and machine the edges I’ll need a lot of infeed and outfeed support. I plan to use the strongback halves for that, but I need to bring them up to the height of the table saw. The router table I’m making I’ll plan to be the same height as well for simplicity.<\/p>\n

\"sawhorse<\/a><\/p>\n

Our current project on the farm has left us with a surplus of cedar 2×6 end cuts. They’re too short to be very useful for most things, but too large to just chuck into the firewood pile. So they’re perfect for sawhorse parts. They’re actually 2-1\/4″ thick by 6-1\/8″ before planing. For the sawhorses I decided to rip them in half and make them out of 2-1\/4″x3″. Though I did all the angle cuts first to make things consistent and have each pair of legs match exactly. Makes for fewer cuts as well.<\/p>\n

\"sawhorse<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the setup for the gang cut I did for the tops of the legs to mate to the stretcher on top. The fence is held on by brad nails, since the circular saw has an awkward foot plate and motor spacing that doesn’t allow for clamping on the fence most of the time.<\/p>\n

\"sawhorse\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I kept this first set only two feet wide. Since the strongback is only a foot wide, I didn’t want to have a lot of extra sawhorse taking up space in the doorway. I think these will be more useful and less in the way around the shop later on. I may do the next set at three feet wide for more general duty. Or not. We’ll see how the skinny ones work out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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