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I Break a Speed Record…

15 years ago

OK for a lot of my readers this will be no big deal. You know who you are, those people out there who whip out projects in a weekend or build whole pieces of furniture in just a few hours. I am not one of those woodworkers. I am slow and proud of it. I take great pride in my ability to stretch out a project until I am so tired of working on it that it just never gets completed!

You can imagine how concerned I was when a past customer called me to say that she was getting on a plane to France and needed another one of my Pagoda Boxes to give as a gift to someone. She has bought several of my box designs in the past and every time she did I happened to have one already made “in stock” so delivery was almost instananeous. This time…no dice. I told her I would do my best and at the outside be able to get it to her on Wednesday. I got into my shop at 4 PM yesterday and low and behold I was able to produce a box from scratch in 4.5 hours complete with 4 coats of lacquer.

I was stunned, but I guess I spend so much time multi-tasking that when I put my mind to one project it is surprising just how fast it came together. It probably helps that I have made over 30 of these too!

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Beth Perry

Thank you for a very informative intro to the spokeshave. I have just started using my newly purchased Veritas low angle spokeshave and found your tips to be extremely helpful. I’m slowly working my way through all of your blog entries and appreciate the time and energy you have taken to enlighten and instruct.

Colin Harris

Many thanks for the video, just bought a spoke shave and really had no idea on how to use it properly. 🙂