After the glue had dried, I took the Alaia out to the garage, and with a jigsaw carefully cut along the outline that I had drawn on the blank. I then drew pencil lines on both the top and bottom of the board 5/8" in from the outside edge. Next, I drew lines on the 1" edge, 3/8" from the top and bottom. When I remove the wood between the lines, that will leave a bevelled rail of 30˚ with a 1/4" flat section in between the lines. After sanding, I should end up with nice rounded rolled rails. After the rails are completed, I will work on sanding the deck smooth, and then sand a concave in the back 1/3 of the board. The Alaia is looking quite nice, the only problem being that it's really too cold to spend much time working outside. My hands were freezing after about 10 minutes of sanding. Looks like I will have to put everything on hold until next week when it's supposed to warm up to a balmy +4˚...
1 comment:
That's a beautiful board!
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