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I got up before the crack of noon today... I slept even later that I did yesterday. Making up for something, I guess.

So I started the day in the shop off by building a resawing jig for the band saw... and it's much nicer than the one that got thrown away in the move.

But in order to get that done, I had to put a piece of plywood on my rip fence on the table saw.

And I decided to use CCA to make the rip fence, and I wanted it nice and smooth and square, of course, so I trimmed it on the table saw and then ran it through the planer.

Well, yeah. I did.

Which pretty much dulled the planer blades, so badly that it wouldn't even cut the redwood that I'd resawn once I got the jig done.

But at least the jig looks good and it works really well, heh.

So I decided that I would use my jouter-jig to make some nice dovetails on the boards that I'd made.

I got half-way through the first one when there was an awful clatter... I immediately turned off the router, of course. The spacer/bushing had come loose and, being brassh, the bit had pretty much chewed it up.

So I looked around the shop, wondering what I should break next... and my eye lit upon a dovetail jig that brother Dan had given me a coupla years ago, and I decide that I would see if I could make it work.

And the short answer, of course, is no. At least, not immediately. I am on the way to figgering it out, of course.

So I decided to change the blades on the planer, and I was about halfway done with that when Karen and Mom came in. I decided that I'd done enough for one day... and hunger was setting in and Karen was making supper, so I came on in.

I did get some more stuff done on Autumn Leaves, and read a lot of stuff on routers on a forum that I'd found. I need to know a lot more stuff.