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Rustic woodware at no cost, and easier than you thought !!

Step 2Cutting that wood

Cutting that wood
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I use the saw with small teeth to cut thin branches and cortex pieces ("thin" means less than 2 cm in my case). For bigger pieces of wood I use the saw with big teeth, and then pass the sandpaper to smooth the surface of the cut end.

Of course there are machines that can help you cut thick logs in seconds, but (1) we are intended to work with rather thin pieces and (2) we are on the cheap!

When you want to smooth the borders or surfaces of your piece of wood, you will first use the rough sandpaper and the softer sandpaper later on, if needed. There's also an iron tool that you can use for smoothing, namely a file. I have a set of 3 files with triangular section, each with different roughness. Files are useful to give shape to the wood as it can remove a big amount of wood chips in a controllable fashion.

When you need to quickly cut a surface to render it as flat as possible, there's a tool for that, called "plane" (thanks to those who provided that name!)
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2 comments
Jan 21, 2010. 10:19 AMsixstringsandrhyme says:
MAN, that is a cool planer!   that thing is antique!!!
Apr 22, 2008. 9:18 AMjab0592 says:
Hello the tool you don't know the name of is called a plane! (over ere in england though lol)

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