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title: 'Preview of My New Desk'
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description: 'Final stretch of making my first real furniture piece and a small challenge ;-;'
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date: 2026-07-08T22:47:52-07:00
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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
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easily the biggest wood working project I've taken on so far. Even though it
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_is_ taking shape there are of course... some hiccups that are sprining up even
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at this stage in the project ;-;
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Still working on getting the last touches actualy finished on this thing though
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so let's take a quick gander at where I'm at and **why** this thing decided to
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fight it's fate of being finished :neutral_face:
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First up is the lovely tusked through mortise and tenon which came out super
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nice :smile:
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{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/tusk.JPG" >}}
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There is a **slight** gap that can be easily remedied with a quick saw cut to
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flush up the connection.
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{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/tusk-gap.JPG" >}}
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Finally we can just re-east the tusk with a couple of taps with the mallet
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and...
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{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/broken-tusk.JPG" >}}
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No yea of course this breaks right at the finish line...
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Anyway the fix for this is pretty straight forward in hindsight since the issue
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comes from the fact that the grain is running parallel to the sheer forces
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from the the stretch that the tusk ( the little wedge thingy ) undergoes in
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this kind of joint.
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In other words just cut some more wedges like in the picture below [ note
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the happy circle ]
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{{< pic "/img/08-jul-2026/grain.png" >}}
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Anyway I'll keep things short for now since I have my first video essay that I
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need to get back to :running:
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