A wee batch of wee ukes

I was gonna wait with the third one, but it wouldn't leave me alone. The two with the stripes are sanded and ready for fretting, the one on the left needs some sanding to catch up.

I'll finish them when I get back from Ouagadougou. Work trip, another embassy.

Safe-T-Planer, cont.

Crikey, I like it! The table turned out decent (after I cut away enough material for the height adjustment handle to rotate...), and even though the top speed was lower than the recommended the koa plates weren't ruined.

I will use it to reach a wee bit above final thickness and finish with scraper. Or thickness sander if it decides to behave.

Safe-T-Planer preparations

Since my thickness sanders went all funny I've started to think about my safe-t-planer that I bought a while back. A quick test during christmas went really bad, because the base board I threw together wasn't sturdy enough. So this is a new and hopefully permanent one, with these pieces on the bottom side to stiffen it. I'll put on a fence along the back edge on the top side, as the instruction videos show.

I'll also consider a lever to put pressure on the wood on both sides of the planer.

Are you paying attention?! I will be asking questions later.