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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>A little section here for important things we learned along the way.<\/p>\n
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- \"Brushing lacquer\" can be sprayed in an HVLP gun by diluting 1 part of it to 2 parts lacquer thinner, and 40 psi is a good pressure. We saved a ton of money just buying the tool rather than using dozens of aerosol cans.<\/li>\n
- That same HVLP sprayer can do paint, incredibly even layers of it, just clean it thoroughly afterwards.<\/li>\n
- Don't trust that your router bit is at the center of it's base plate - measure that!<\/li>\n
- 3\/4\" thick plywood isn't precisely 0.750\", don't make it a critical dimension when designing. Same for the width and length, you usually get slightly more than 4' x 8' in a sheet.<\/li>\n
- Think about the direction of gravity during the glue-up, this is where you can accumulate skew across a large piece depending on how you orient it.<\/li>\n
- Keep track of your measurements; are they center-to-center, inner-edge to inner-edge, something else? Be clear in sketches.<\/li>\n
- If you're making more than one of something, build a jig, but really make sure its the right jig before you get cutting.<\/li>\n
- Don't stress the small stuff, wood filler can work some real magic, and big mistakes teach you something important (make scrap for the next project).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The project that we kicked off way back in October of 2021 is finally coming to completion! We now have a full home library, eight full bookcases and five extra shelves in retrofitted closet-nook. Was it more expensive than buying eight higher-end bookcases? Yes. Did it take longer than just buying them? Also yes. I\u2019m … Continue reading Wood: Home Library Complete!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,138,94,98],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3y4AW-hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}