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Finally got a day to just putter in the wood shop.  

  Decided it was time to try my hand at an English layout square.

  I am calling this the prototype.  Now that I have learned lessons 
  during the construction, my plan is to build one out of some nice
  walnut I save for special stuff.

  After I get it squared up, this will probably get a wax finish and be 
  a wall hanger in the shop, to remind me to slow down and think about
  the steps needed to complete a project in a satisfactory manner.

  Or something like that.

  
  


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(08-07-2020, 11:57 AM)MarkSingleton Wrote: [ -> ]Finally got a day to just putter in the wood shop.  

  Decided it was time to try my hand at an English layout square.

  I am calling this the prototype.  Now that I have learned lessons 
  during the construction, my plan is to build one out of some nice
  walnut I save for special stuff.

  After I get it squared up, this will probably get a wax finish and be 
  a wall hanger in the shop, to remind me to slow down and think about
  the steps needed to complete a project in a satisfactory manner.

  Or something like that.

  
  


 

Wow, that is nice! Fully Schwarz-ified. 

The star of the show on that project was most definitely the
router plane. Made the lap joints dirt simple to do.

Looks cool, though. How hard is it to get one of those things trued up, anyway? I've never really been tempted to make one of my own, but I'm sure they're useful, and they sure do look cool. Did you use red cedar?

It doesn't smell like cedar, not really sure what it is. Perhaps a type of
redwood? I have a bunch of stuff that I cannot ID. I do know it is way too soft for the purpose.
I will true it up with a hand plane but probably not use it much more than as a decoration!

If it's first growth redwood, it will be extremely fine grained, with nearly invisible growth rings.  If it's second growth, you'll be able to see color change designating the growth rings, but little to now change in texture/pores.

Redwood typically has little to no obvious smell when it's dry.