Quick and to the Pointless

So, those scarf joint pictures I forgot to post before with the added mahogany headstock veneer:

 

Things are starting to take shape. I took a thin piece of mahogany, planed it so that it would be on the same angle as the "fret board," and then glued and clamped it to sit overnight. I then took the excess mahogany off with the band saw, and then planed it flush. Next, I have to cut and shape the piece of wood into something closely resembling a stubby guitar neck/head stock. Then, after all of this, I get to give it to a second year guitar student who will then step on it, break it, and learn how to fix it. You're welcome.

Elsewhere in the world of tools class, I'm working on creating my cabinet scrapers. This has become my new "mahogany block" in terms of frustration. I've spent close to six hours lapping the sides of the scraper flat (more or less destroying my whetstone in the process), filing the edges square, and trying to burnish a slight hook on the edge so that I can scrape super-fine wood shavings...yeah, that burnishing step is what is killing me. I just can't quite get it right. It's sort of like honing the edge on a kitchen knife with that rod...come to think of it, I was never really able to get that right, either. That could be a sign. Anyway...I finished grinding my chisels, so when I get frustrated with this scraper project, I've been working on a holder for all of my feeler gauges:

   It has tape holding the smaller ones in place because they are thinner than my actual saw cuts. Speaking of saw cuts, I finally was able to use my Sun-child Japanese saw on a project! It's so awesome...cuts with the littlest effort. How did I survive without one? I also realized that I will be using the Sun-child to cut some dovetails for the next project that I need to work on...I know, they just keep coming. Somehow, I never feel overwhelmed. I think it is because they are all very different projects; it stays fresh and interesting.

So now, I am just sitting in my room, typing this out/working on projects and watching a stream of the Packer game because for whatever reason, the game is only being shown on the NFL network and not on any other station:

 

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