Corded tools would have been nice when I made cocobolo and bubinga boxes with hand cut dove tails.
One whack with the mallet and my shavable chisels became old time hockey smiles.
I quit sharpening them and just hit harder. It worked but no more hand cut bubinga thanks anyway lol.
I like working with mahogany
functional breadboard ends with working ebony splines
Very nice, I'm a huge fan of Greene & Greene.
What's not fun is boring into end grain with 1 3/8" forstner bits.
Here's a pencil cup made from some 60+ year old mahogany.
It was being used as floorboards upstairs in a barn.
It was actually an unidentifable gray wood they were going to toss.
They ran some through a planer to see what it was and the angels sang.
That was in the 60s so the tree must have been cut for lumber much more than 60 years ago.
Maybe more than 100.
Nothing special about the cup without the story.
I made about a dozen travel mugs from different woods.
Burned through various sized forstner bits. oh well. no more end grain projects.
It's a smokey frustrating job but my travel mugs rock.
Save the Forstner's!!! That's why we have deep fluted gouges & adjustable tool rests!
