Monday morning I left my home at
I am taking Phil Lowes Building A Demilune Table class. It will be my first venture into curved work. I’ll also learn how to hammer veneer. Im using mahogany for the legs and top, and birds-eye maple veneer will be applied (along with banding of a species yet-to-be-determined)to a substrate of poplar. Monday, each class member cut a series of short pieces of secondary wood, which will be bricked to make the curved substrate for the apron (well pattern rout to an MDF template once the polygon is assembled).
All of this is exciting and new, but what I found most surprising was the planning process. On a piece of butcher paper, using only a T-square, two triangles, a 15 cm rule and trammel points, Phil produced beautiful full-size orthographic and isometric drawings of our project in less than two hours , all with seemingly no math. This is what I need to learn.
Not so exciting? Prepping for hammer veneering. Phil prefers to use his hide glue, even though I am thrilled to learn this traditional skill. Even though we won’t be using the glue pots for more than a day, there is still the strong smell of cooking collagen. That ought to go well with breakfast.
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