planing the top and bottom and rails!

roughly shaped the main cont0ur of the rail last night

it gets everywhere
drew guidelines for the rails

the corners on this smaller block started putting grooves also. ended up just wrapping a piece of sandpaper around a block-didn't glue it down or anything, adn it worked great. the simpler the better






wanted a long, 24" inch, board with sand paper to sand the board evenly across the width. thought gluing pieces of paper along it would work, but where the paper meets teh next piece ends up putting small grooves in the board. need to just buy a piece of belt sander paper and use it instead.

planing the bottom of the board! getting dusty!

so this weekend i took off the outer crust of the blank (about an 1/8" on top adn bottom) and then started on the rails. came across a few problems, but learned from em!