Many people are filled with grand plans and noble ideals. I'm not. Today my great hope was to not to have to put on socks. I wanted to spend the day wandering about our house and maybe do some work in the wood shop too.
One of today's jobs was finish off Kieran's submarine bank. Kieran drew a plan for me two weeks ago.
The submarine has two compartments and one side is glued on while the other side is held on with screws. Kieran wanted to be able to get the money out, I didn't want it to be too easy.
The real job of the day was making a picture frame for a painting by our friend Rhonda. I made the frame from elm. Elm is a wood that has wonderful character, but is stringy and working with it can be a challenge.
When I was cutting the rabbets on the back of the frame sections the wood came away in strings and choked the dust collection system on my Jess Em router table.
After I got the elm cut to length I used my KREG Klamp table for assembly.
Here is a link to an instructable making a wooden picture frame using biscuits.
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