Been off for a spell - finalizing the move, getting kids settled in school, fall yard work, and of course getting a bug that took a couple weeks to shake.
Getting around to finishing the strips for the bamboo hex (Garrison 212E). Had the butt section done a couple weeks back. Now … just had to get the tips done (I’m used to dealing with small thousandths of an inch at work) - however with composites, aluminum, steels, titanium, etc … not with bamboo. This almost scared the beejeezers outta me … but - I had to do it. Learned a lot from the butts, moreso, learned a lot of patience is needed, no major 7+thou swipes … time is your friend … and keep a sharp blade (essentially after every 2 strips - sharpen it). Well - I ain’t getting any younger, and the strips aren’t planing themselves … Pitter-patter I said…
I had a brief thought … 'ya know, out of all the planing I’ve done - no ‘boo blood was spilled’. … I shouldn’t have thought it - 2 swipes later, strip went to jump, I caught it and EL-SLICE-O … boo-blood.
Anyhow, just need to build my oven, dry them, scrape to final and finish them off. But … you know … this is all going too well for me … maybe it’s been the practice over the past year and a half with PMQ’s and hex tomato stakes, or … something VERY VERY wrong is going on and I just don’t know it yet.
Well, I gotta be off and running. A load of other bits to do (but right now, time for kidlets to be stuffed into their beds).
darrell,