April 16, 2017
Yesterday night rained pretty hard. It was so nice to sleep listening to the raindrops. Plus, the temperature is also a lot cooler which makes it nice to sleep.
Today is Sunday so we are taking it slow. We had bread, eggs, sausages and tea for breakfast. William’s dad and brother (Maurice) went to church while we stayed at home. I did some reading on “Blink” (by Malcolm Gladwell). On Chapter 4 now! Hopefully I’ll get to finish the book before end of this trip.
At about 2pm we started working again. The 90 degree jig I made yesterday worked well! It was cutting perfectly perpendicular but at one point the jig broke (guess wood glue wasn’t strong enough). So, we nailed it in and just waiting for it to dry now.
In the meantime, we planed a lot more lumber. Getting faster at these things now.
Here are the steps to planing lumber:
- Pick up a lumber (2x4 or 2x6)
- Inspecting all sides to check if wood is curving or bending
- Measure the length to see how much we can use (sometimes one end of the wood bends so much, or gets so thin that we have to cut it off)
- Pick the most flat side to start planning
- Because the fence is strangely installed on the planar, we get a little lip on the wood which we have to chisel off.
- Now we have one flat side, which we will use to push against the fence, and now we plane the short side of the wood. As a result we will have our first 90 degree corner.
- At this point, we will have two flat sides.
After this, we place the flat side on the resize feeder, this will shave off the top side and make it flat. Do the same with the short side of the wood, and now all four sides have completely flat surfaces!
Oh, and here's a chicken giving birth. We put a soft cloth below her, and put a basket over her, so she won't run around when she's laying her egg.
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