Harrison's Birthday Gift- Week 1

So yesterday Dad and I spent a couple of hours on Harrison's birthday gift. Time was limited due to a very busy Thursday but we got quite a bit done. 

Before going out to the shop

The wood - Oak

All the wood is now cut to size and the equal pieces have been married up with each other. Once the wood is cut to size, you need to look at each piece to see which way the grain goes. We married up three pieces so we had to make sure that we had two pieces with the grain facing upwards, the other down. To check this you look at the end of the wood. Of course, we also wanted the grain on each piece to match it's partner as close as possible to not only look nice but to hide the joins. 

Checking out the grains

Cutting the wood

Once we had that done, we started to level out the edges so that the pieces would fit together nicely. The machine didn't cooperate as nicely as we had hoped so this process took a little longer than usual. Dad did figure out the problem though, so next week, it's levelling the rest of the pieces and gluing some of the boards together. 


Stay tuned!