Dad was around the other day giving me a hand with the frame for the new desk in the study.
After I had run a piece of timber across the buzzer, I ran my finger tips along the face to make sure I had removed all the skip planing marks from the mill.
He echoed something his father told him the old joiners used to do to check the finished surface. Rather than run their fingers over the bare timber, they would lift their apron up, lay it on the surface of the timber, and then run their fingers across the apron.
I gave it a try ... and I'll be damned. You can actually feel MORE detail through the material than you can on the bare surface.
A handy little trick I thought.
After I had run a piece of timber across the buzzer, I ran my finger tips along the face to make sure I had removed all the skip planing marks from the mill.
He echoed something his father told him the old joiners used to do to check the finished surface. Rather than run their fingers over the bare timber, they would lift their apron up, lay it on the surface of the timber, and then run their fingers across the apron.
I gave it a try ... and I'll be damned. You can actually feel MORE detail through the material than you can on the bare surface.
A handy little trick I thought.
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