This will be a quick entry. Cutting some straight tenons is a breeze. Well, not any more as we shall see.
First I did the shoulder cut on all 4 sides:
Then back to the tenoning jig. No problem.
Then to the band saw to trim the ends to the shoulder. Couldn’t be simpler.
Simple as pie until you screw things up. I got complacent going so simple a job and made 2 mistakes.
On the same part no less. One on each end!
Here I started to make a cut and realized that it wasn’t right. The fix is easy though. Just take a piece of cut off material from the cheek cuts and glue it in. I just cut it correctly after the glue dried.
Same thing here except I didn’t realize it until I had finished the cut. Luckily it was just as simple to fix. I just glued another piece of cut off material and cut it again.
This just goes to show you that you have to pay attention even on the simplest of tasks.
I’ll never do that again. Yea, right. In my dreams!
In the next blog I’ll finish up these aprons finally.
-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX
10 comments so far
BertFlores58
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#1 posted 754 days ago
Not only that you do it right but you also right what went wrong. It is proven that accident happens most of the time in easy job when we are lax and confident in what we are doing. Anyway, this is a good reminder for us that every human being commit mistake and I agree that you always do right in dreams.
-- Bert
shipwright
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#2 posted 754 days ago
It seems you never screw up the tricky stuff, but there are lots of us out here who feel your pain on this one. Two left hand sides, exactly 64/64” too short, etc, etc. Always on the easy stuff. Nice recovery and no real harm done. I’m sure if it had been a critical area you would have been aces as usual. Great work, great blog.
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C_PLUS_Woodworker
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#3 posted 754 days ago
hey Gary…..........Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way
hooky
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#4 posted 754 days ago
yep definitely planned
because now you have given a great tutorial on how to fix things that aren’t right
cant wait to see the chairs finished
keep up the good work
Hooky
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littlebear
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#5 posted 754 days ago
I feel your pain!!!!!!!!! Things will be ok on the next day
-- Ralphie Maine
Beginningwoodworker
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#6 posted 754 days ago
Thats going to be a fine dining room set.
-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker
sras
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#7 posted 753 days ago
Been there – done that. And then did it again ;)
-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive
savannah505
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#8 posted 753 days ago
Your doing great Gary, none of us are perfect either, and a pro fixes his mistakes so that no one knows.
-- Dan Wiggins
lew
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#9 posted 753 days ago
Oh, if my mistakes were so easily fixed!
Lew
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sandhill
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#10 posted 753 days ago
Measure twice, cut once, then fix it and cut again. I have been doing a lot of that myself lately. Whats nice is it is inside the joint and adds strength to the joint and makes it stable like plywood. “Yea, I’ll stick to that story”.
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