we started at 9:00am. I demonstrated sharpening a chisel and then used it to carve a wooden spoon. The point of the spoon carving was to get a better understanding of how to work with the wood's fibers. Rather than shoving it through a machine we learn to work with the wood.
Next we created the reference faces on the aprons we cut in our last session. We used the shooting boards we made last session to create the reference edge.
A couple of hours in and we're starting to get a nice accumulation of shavings around all of the benches.
Next we create the reference face and edge on the leg blocks to prepare them for sawing out the legs.
At a bit after 6:00pm we finished for the day. Everyone was tired, that good tired that comes from hard productive work.
We'll be back at it first thing in the morning. Tomorrow; finish up today's work, chop mortises, cut tenons, fit the tenons to the mortises, taper legs, glue up tops...
Bill
