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266519 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2018‑09‑16 Re: Swapped Pins and Tails!
Cut them off and get out the board-stretcher!
Don

On 2018-09-16 4:18 PM, Nichael Cramer wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>> Micah
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