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266518 Nichael Cramer <nichael@s...> 2018‑09‑16 Re: Swapped Pins and Tails!
At 05:43 PM 9/16/2018, Micah Salb wrote:
>Whah!
>
>I finished cutting my tails and did my saw cuts for one set of pins 
>and I'm staring at the boards saying, something's not right here.
>
>Then it dawned on me:  I put the tails on the wrong boards!
>
>Ack.
>
>So.  How can I continue this without redoing all my work but not 
>have the bottom fall out?  Wedge the pins?  Pin them?
>
>Grrr!

(Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt)

1] If you have sufficient slack in the length in the correct 
dimension, probably
the most foolproof thing would be to cut off the, um, 
"incorrectly-placed tails"
(and an appropriate length on the opposite board) and start again, ending up
with a slightly smaller- finished piece.

2] Option two, that I've tried in a similar situation:  cleanup the saw-cuts
and insert/glue skinny shim-like slips of wood into the kerfs.  If 
you do a careful
enough job and you get the grain oriented correction, it should look 
(reasonably) OK.

3] Less agreeable:  If you come up with a not-too-good-looking, but 
strong-enough solution,
always remember: Veneer is your friend.

Hope there's anything useful here.

N

Recent Bios FAQ