I'm officially on day four of this project and had a delay this morning that has unfortunately put me off schedule. The delay was an excursion clamming with my wife about a mile from the house. The fruits of the labor were outstanding, but the time setback could be crippling.
Today I was able to get the long rails cut and routed as well as the outside post pieces routed. The inside slat rails have also been cut and routed. I was able to get all but three of the boards planed tonight, unfortunately the 2x6 boards are the ones not done...
I did run into an interesting board At the end of the evening:
By far, the most work I've had to do on a board so far. There were the deep scallops on the left as well as the feed roll marks on the right. Not only did this side of the board take a lot of planing to smooth it out, it's not completely done and the other side had so many grain direction changes I eventually just switched to a card scraper to finish the job.
Tomorrow is the last day that I have to work on this one for a bit. Partially because the new bed for our room is being delivered tomorrow, partially because we're leaving for Portland Thursday, and partially because it needs to be used when we get back.
I have several more cuts to make and a final assembly before I can call it good enough until it's finished drying out.
Time for some sleep before a long day tomorrow.
And the pile grows...
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