Progress on the larger slab of herringbone went well today. All I did was put both sides through the drum-sander, at S&F.
With the smaller herringbone that I did earlier, I matched the strips. With this larger slab, I’ve randomised them. I like both results.
After that I worked on Snare #2. Now that I’ve got some hardware to attach, I was hoping for some satisfying progress. Instead, I made a very slow-mo pig’s ear of it all!
It seems I’m destined to make every conceivable mistake possible. Often repeatedly, and that’s really annoying!
Today’s litany of frustrations included: repeatedly measuring for marking out, with the results never stacking up to a neat/accurate outcome; drilling the first two holes in the wrong place, despite constant measuring and re-measuring; finding out the supplied screws aren’t long enough to actually attack the hardware (or put another way, the shells I’ve made are too thick, for the hardware as supplied).
That was all at S&F. Then, once home, I attempted to make Keruing dowels, to patch the inaccurately drilled holes. This – trying to make the dowels – was a nightmare! My dowel-making tool doesn’t work very well. Guess I should make a newer better one?
And then I went and put the dowels in the two holes that were accurately drilled, as opposed to the misplaced ones. Gaah!!!
Knocking the dowels out and putting them into the correct holes? That more or less split the drum, for the umpteenth time! I guess tomorrow I’ll have to address that. Superglue, of wood glue? Hmmm…