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Aiming for Fitting Extras

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Alden Hackmann
Jun 07, 2023
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Thanks to my paying subscribers for joining me over here in Extras Land! If you like detail, this is the place.

Trimming the Shims

It’s like putting cucumber slices on your eyes to cool them. Only they’re hot, and they’re cotton, and it’s a hurdy-gurdy.

Drilling the Tail Brace

I’m a detail person, and maybe just a little OCD (though not a neat OCD person) so it drives me a little batty to have to leave all the details out.

I use the wiggler to get the table pretty much centered over the hole. I don’t have a set of clear layout lines to line up with, so the wiggler is just to get “pretty close.” Then I use the drill bit to get it just right, and I put in the Forstner bit.

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