You got to know when to fold them

[Kizar_Sozay]

Was making Christmas presents. Two are in another post.
The third is an eyeglass display. I picked out some nice mahogany. Then I made a pattern for the ends (shelves and a backing in between). Resaw the plank and mill on the planer. Cut out the rough pieces with about an 1/8" overhang on the pattern edge. Clamp to the table and get the flush cut bit out.

Instant disaster. The bit I used wasn't long enough to cut both at once and I should have taken the first pass with a climb cut. Didn't do either and the pieces split out. The pics show the disaster. I held the pattern back in the picture. I certainly wasn't taking that big a bite:

[gMike]

I had one go nips north on me today too. My own fault for not taking more time to do it right. I salvaged it but it makes me mad at myself when I screw up like that!

[TomFromStLouis]

The fattest file in my "mistakes" drawer is the "power router" one.

[Superglide]

TomFromStLouis said:

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The fattest file in my "mistakes" drawer is the "power router" one.

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Mine is the one between the ears. Tool doesn't matter. They all offended me from one time or another.....
I hang a few around the shop as reminders.

[cputnam]

Looks like African Mahogany as opposed the South/Central/Cuban stuff.

[Kizar_Sozay]

Its actually sipo which is reasonably priced here. It has a lot of gold tones but the fluorescent washes it out.

The machines were still set when I walked away so it was pretty easy to make new ones. This time I didn't stack the two pieces and made the flush cut in two easy passes. The project is all cut and sanded. I'm going out to put some tinted sealcoat on a little later.