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A stubby cherry leg with a tenon and curves on the bottom is resting on a walnut slab with a mortise for the leg and a maple bowtie inlay.
Same setup but with the leg inserted into the mortise with a small router plane in the back. Easter egg, it's actually the other leg and the slab is rotated but looks the same.
The slab is on the workbench with the legs inserted and a digital level reading 0°. Messy workshop is the backdrop.
A side angle view of the slab and legs show the shape of the leg being triangle with the bottom arched and the sides squared off. The top of the leg has a veritcal section of the rectangular tenon visible.
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Walnut mortise with a crack running through it is seen next to a maple bowtie plug which is meant to seat into the hole
The maple bowtie inlay is in the walnut slab with a hand plane next to it with wood shavings scattered about.
A thin ribbon of a wood shaving that is half light maple and half dark walnut being held up by a brown hand with the slab, tools, and shavings in the background.
A close up of a portion of the light maple bowtie inlay in a dark walnut slab with a black and brass hand plane resting on it with wood shavings about.
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Took my TIME with the bow tie. Did a few practice cuts and the bandsaw cut went better than any previous attempts. Note to self, in the future start with wider pieces so the cut doesn't start at then corners.

Did the rip and cross cut on the table saw. I don't have a cross cut sled so for a small piece like this I needed a clamp for proper pressure and safety. Then I spent a good bit of time with a chisel and card scraper to clean up the bandsaw cut (I need to learn how to tune it better).

I made this one slightly bigger than the existing cut but apparently way less than I thought so I had very little room for error in cutting the mortise? inlay? I'm pretty happy with the fit, the third photo shows the most egregious angle and I had to work to find it. Now I need to make it deeper and make another cut on the other end of the board.

Lots of time with hand tools today and I really enjoyed the peace and quiet in the shop, especially since it wasn't a million degrees!

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A small piece of maple is clamped to the miter gauge of a table saw.
The light colored maple bowtie is nestled into the darker walnut. It's a tight fit so the bowtie looks like it's sitting on the surface since there are no gaps.
Bowtie viewed from the other side where a small gap can be seen between the maple and walnut.
Top view of bowtie inlay, no gaps visible. There are two chisels and a marking knife on thee slab along with thin wood shavings.
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The legs are done! Well... three sides of the legs look the same, like the left one. No, they're done! This right one will definitely be the back outside. Love it when the pieces pick where they need to be instead of me having to make a choice.

Onto the bowtie on the bottom. Well... I have to redo it entirely because I reasoned through the grain orientation wrong. I aligned the grain of the maple bowtie when I needed to make it perpendicular to that of the walnut so during wood expansion it expands the other way and prevents the crack from growing.
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It's for the best, this was a bad fit but not the worst given that it was my first time doing inlay. I'll make a bigger bow tie tomorrow to cover it all. It'll be an absolute unit.

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Two curved and angled pieces of wood that will make up the leg with a chamfer detail on the curve. The chamfer is much wider in the right one than the left. It's on a bench top scattered with tools.
Walnut slab has a crack running through it, on it there's a chalk outline of a bowtie next to the same bow tie which is a very light colored maple.
The bowtie outline has been partially routed out, the slab is full of wood shavings and the router is sitting next to the slab.
The original bowtie is now seated into the part that was excavated. The fit isn't super tight, gaps here and there but not totally egregious. A much bigger block of maple sits next to the with a perpendicular grain orientation indicating how the new bowtie will be cut.
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Made a paper template for the rise legs and it was a pleasure to use my new marking knife. Good sharp tools make such a difference.

Cut the legs out on the bandsaw, I need so much more practice. I don't have a template following router flush trim bit so the paper template was mostly helpful to not have to make complex measurements and marking twice. Going to take the slab to my friend's tomorrow for another round through the planer. I'm getting close!

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A work bench with a paper template on top on a cherry block with some tools like a ruler, marking knife, ruler, and square scattered about.
A walnut slab is sitting on top of the legs from the previous photo with an open garage door in the background.
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Back to the slab build thread. Took time to declutter and make some space in the shop yesterday. All the lumber on the rack was on the floor, a lot more room for activities now, but still ways to go (strategically cropped photo).

Had to flatten the epoxy, it was my first time and it went well-ish. Mistakes were made, but I feel good about all the things I learned. When you do knowledge work all day, seeing results of your actions in the physical world is great, even if it's failure. I did some repairs with black CA glue but I'll have to take it back to my friend's planer and take an ⅛" (3 mm) off.

If you're following along still, thanks! And let me know if there's something specific you want to see. I'm not good at any of this but happy to answer questions for anyone interested in getting into woodworking. Especially if you didn't grow up around tools; I didn't, not sure if we had more than a screwdriver, if that.

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A cluttered garage shop with many tools, bandsaw, jointer, planer, table saw, dust collector, sheet goods and boards leaned on the wall, lumber rack above, a shelf in the back and some bicycles.
An unfortunate circular gouge on the wood surface along a fine black epoxy line.
A larger area of epoxy pour where the excess has been cleaned up rather poorly and the whole surface needs to be flattened to recover.
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Did another new thing today, mixed and poured epoxy! Popping the air bubbles was the most fun part. I mixed more than I needed and it got way too hot and started smoking when the left over started curing. In the future I know to spread out left overs in a thin layer to let it cure. That's the current state of the slab, I 'm really hoping it's one of those things where it needs to look worse before it starts looking better. Up next will be a bowtie for the crack on the underside and then decide on if I want to round over the the bottoms and/or the tops of the straight edges, then legs, joinery, sanding, finish.

I've been strapped for time this week and this will be the last update for a couple weeks due to other commitments. Thanks for following along and the encouragement.

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Walnut slab on the end of a messy work bench. The slab has a blob of black epoxy on middle right and some black epoxy lines extending to the right edge along where cracks were.
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The protruding part of the live edge is barely not fitting in the opening of a planer (a white box with an opening).
A close-up view of a different planer, a green top with a white edged shelf and a dust port above where the slab is barely visible entering the other side, a lot roomier.
A partial view of the underside of the walnut slab which has the long crack. There's a lighter color wood bow tie resting on top across the crack and a blue pencil is also next to it.
A very messy work bench with a router with jig, dust collection hose, a glue of boards looking like a medieval torture apparatus and more junk with some machines in the background.
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Today was leg (design) day on the PineNote!
I don't know if I have the skills to actually build this with the angles as drawn. I want something that's not just rectangles sticking out of a slab, want to try stuff, but without doing too many design elements and detracting from the wood figure.

I don't have enough walnut for legs but I have some cherry that I can mill up to be 1" (2.5 cm) thick or the most sensible way to say it: ⁴/₄ four quarter 🤦🏽‍♂️

Tomorrow we cut into the slab... hyperventilation!

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An e-ink tablet (PineNote) in the dark with the screen illuminated with an amber backlight. There are three iterations of drawings of the side profile of stubby angular legs, each more detailed. The last one with measurements.
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I bought this slab of walnut two years. This has been many things in my head over that time. It's too short and narrow for a lot of those applications, but the two year timer is up and it has to become something.

So it'll be a monitor riser shelf for my desk. With the live edge on the front and the back squared off to avoid the sap wood. Looks like it'll be 44½" (113 cm) on the 55" (140 cm) table top, 12" (30.5 cm) at the narrowest and 15" (38 cm) at the widest.

Did some rough block planing and put some mineral oil to get a feel for what the showcase feature is going to be... just look at that crotch figure 😍

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A long and narrow slab of walnut on a workbench. It has two "live edges" with lighter color sap wood and darker middle. The lower edge is next to a black straight edge and this is the front of the shelf. You can barely make out the pencil lines that show the intended dimensions.
A close of the front live edge. Mineral oil application has made the wood look much darker to simulate what a finished version might look like. There's a curve that protrudes out and it has a crazy amount of "crotch figure" (swirly lines and patterns) and chattoyance.
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I've done it, I've got a #thinkpad and I've installed #linux. It's exactly how I remember from high school. Takes forever, half works, and now I have a new hobby. So like all my hobbies lets do a #buildthread!
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