Woodworking Chest Thumping

I think of fine woodworking as a refined art. Sure we get to play with cool tools that make noise and dust, but we often need to refine that mess with an elegant hand tool. Fine woodworkers are also designers who toil over their sketch books and CAD programs to get just the right curve on that bottom apron or just the right reveal to that cockbead moulding around a drawer. We are historians and oberservers constantly taking in the history of a piece of furniture from the Philadelphia Art Museum to your local sandwich shop.

Now that I have made this case for our civilized nature let me dispell all of that with a little Tim Allen grunting and testoterone filled gloating….

I cut one big as##$# mortise today! You could fit a bunt cake in there (sorry couldn’t think of something else that would fit in there and my wife is watching the food network in the background)

And when I fit the nut into the mortise I felt the air escaping around it in the most perfect piston fit I have ever achieved. OOOhh hoo ahhh arght! (ape grunting noises)

Just thought I would share my ape like regression with you all.

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