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I was up until two this morning working on a desk and honing my woodworking skills.
I learned the following lessons:
I learned the following lessons:
- Ryobas are awesome.
- It's really easy to get sidetracked for a couple of hours making wooden jaws for your vice.
- As awesome as ryoba are, they're not good for making right-angled internal cuts. They are, however, fantastic for making parallel cuts to help chop out the joint, which should then be done with a hammer and chisel.
- I need a bigger chisel.
- I can simultaneously chop out a joint and help revise applications over AIM after midnight.
- Tearout sucks. I need to be more careful when chopping out joints and do a deeper prechop at the inside edge of the side that I'm not chopping from.
- Staying up until 2 AM on a school night really sucks, but it still may have been worth it...
- I really love projects like this, especially now that I'm getting to the point where my workspace is set up to facilitate them more
