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    • Long day whelping puppies today.  First time Mom had a bit of a hard time, but didn't lose a puppy and all five healthy and strong.
    • I like your micro fence adjuster on the router table.  The “Maloof Round” you refer to; is that where the vertical dividers meet the horizontal ones or the reveal of the drawer front edges? 
    • Here's another look at those small wedges in use. They really let you confirm your reveal. This is the profile and reveal I am after. It is a variation on what Sam called the "Maloof Round". Sam was a graphic artist before everything else and this softening of the intersection at the reveal made things, according to him, more visually consistent throughout the year. I have found him to be correct and am using it here. I'm pretty sure I have shown this simple router table push block before. It stabilizes long narrow pieces against the fence while feeding. It also acts as a backer block. You can see all four corners on the one side have been used a decent amount. When they become too chewed up you just flip the block and start in on the other side. I keep a few of them on hand made up from stock that might normally be thrown out (or left by the side of the road). I am down to my last one. I'll have to keep my eye out for someone throwing out some old IKEA cabinets I can cut up to make some more. At any rate, despite still being rough blanks, I get a drawer front "field" that looks like so. Time for the other seven . . .
    • Dear Mark, thanks for your input I planning to replace the table top as time is the key here it’s matter of 16 screws holding the table with legs. I’ll take videos once finished  thanks again   
    • Good advice above that I want to amplify.   I find the pencil scribble trick to be very useful.  But one thing I learned, don't hold the pencil upright  and press down on the tip like you were writing, or you will dent the wood.   Instead, hold the pencil closer to horizontal.  Scribble all the way to the edges so your sanding goes to the edges, too. I like that you don't skip any grits in your sanding sequence, but, if you're building a new piece, 40 and 60 are very coarse grits.  Unless you have some deep saw marks to remove.  Starting somewhere between 80 and 120 is more common.  A mineral spirits wipe down will not only clean off the sanding dust, but it gives you a preview of what the surface will look like when finish is applied.
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