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title: 'Preview of My New Desk'
description: 'Final stretch of making my first real furniture piece and a small challenge ;-;'
date: 2026-07-08T22:47:52-07:00
thumbnail: /img/08-jul-2026/thumbnail.JPG
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I'm finally get to the point where I can start putting the finishing touches on
easily the biggest wood working project I've taken on so far. Even though it 
_is_ taking shape there are of course... some hiccups that are sprining up even
at this stage in the project ;-;

Still working on getting the last touches actualy finished on this thing though
so let's take a quick gander at where I'm at and **why** this thing decided to
fight it's fate of being finished :neutral_face:


First up is the lovely tusked through mortise and tenon which came out super 
nice :smile:

{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/tusk.JPG" >}}

There is a **slight** gap that can be easily remedied with a quick saw cut to
flush up the connection.

{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/tusk-gap.JPG" >}}

Finally we can just re-east the tusk with a couple of taps with the mallet 
and...

{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/broken-tusk.JPG" >}}

No yea of course this breaks right at the finish line...


Anyway the fix for this is pretty straight forward in hindsight since the issue
comes from the fact that the grain is running parallel to the sheer forces 
from the the stretch that the tusk ( the little wedge thingy ) undergoes in 
this kind of joint.

In other words just cut some more wedges like in the picture below [ note 
the happy circle ]

{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/grain.png" >}}

Anyway I'll keep things short for now since I have my first video essay that I
need to get back to :running: