Nice work, glatt.
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stick a little football shaped disk into those slots when you glue it up.
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The "footballs" are beech, I think. They're pressed and dried so they expand to hold tight when they come in contact with the glue.
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How do you put two planks together to make one big plank?
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If you clamp them up with an overlap then saw down the length, through the overlap, the pieces will match. Same as matching wallpaper without a pattern.
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i have to leave after only 10-15 minutes because i just can't understand how they do what they do.
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They do it one step at a time. To understand how, you have to break it down into those steps. To understand why, you have to do it wrong at least once.
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but my dad uses a hand plane and a straight edge. Use a long straight edge to find bumps and valleys, and plane them down.
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Your Dad is extrordinary. Most people would spend years developing that skill and some could never get it right. Knowing exactly what your hand and that plane are going to do before they do it, on every stroke, is damn near witchcraft.
