How do I know the Pennsylvania Germans were smarter than me?Because they didn't build their furniture with curly cherry!
I go out of my way to not use sandpaper. In fact, sandpaper is the main reason I became interested in handplaning. Sawdust makes me cough (even with a dust mask) and it coats everything in the shop (even with a dust collector).
But trying to handplane this curly cherry was too much for my planes and me. (The next handplane I build will have a 55ยบ pitch.) Ah well, sometimes sandpaper can be your friend.
All the pieces to this PA German sawbuck table are ready for finishing. The table top is already finished with about eight coats of blonde shellac and two coats of Circa 1850 Antique Paste Varnish. I just need to rub out the topcoat to knock back some of the shine.
And because I always want to make it worth your while to read my blog, here is bonus photo quiz:
Is the image at right A) a pile of sawdust in a patch of posies? B) my dog, R
osie, lying languidly on the bedspread directly in front of a fan? Or, C) a clever ploy to disguise what might otherwise have been a rather lame blog post?You be the judge.
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