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Working With Wood Continued
Here I'm cutting and fitting the mitered corners, which is something
I don't do very often. Going slowly here is time consuming, but it
works.
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I glued and nailed the raised sides to the
plywood and then masked-off the top and bottom surface because I only
want to paint the raised sides.
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As I was shooting some of the nails, I noticed the
newspaper moved in two places. And as you can see the nails came through
the top surface. Now it's time to fix them. I used some wire cutters to
remove the majority of of the nails but now I need to remove the small
amount next to the surface.
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I used my Dremel and a carbide burr that has a rounded end to remove the
nail.
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Next I applied some wood Spackle to fill the voids. An hour later I
sanded the filler flush and then re-masked my plywood again.
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While the glue was drying on the table top, I started sanding on the
legs.
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Once I had all the surfaces sanded, I filled all the nail holes with
Spackle.
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The next day I cut all the legs to 8 1/8" long, leaving them oversize by
1/8". Notice my work-stop (arrow) which made this process very easy.
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I used a small clamp to hold the blade guard open while cutting (arrow).
This was to make sure the guard didn't drag across the sanded surface.
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A close-up of the clamp I used, which is made by Kant-Twist. I have many
sizes of these types of clamps and they work so much better than any
C-clamp.
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