How true is that statement. Yesterday I spent the entire day flattening some edge banding on an Urn I am making, a new product in fact, I inlaid some edge banding that I had make on a previous occasion. I was about 1/32" proud. No problem said I, Just Plane it off. Not so easy the inlay was made of Wenge and Scottish Sycamore. First step was reached for my trusty 060 Stanley, did not make a dent much less an impact. Flush trim router bit crossed my mind, then disregarded as it would only tear out the inlay as the Wenge I forgot to mention was end grain. Second try was sanding grabbed the Festool, soon gave that a miss as it was wearing into the Burl Veneer that the Inlay surrounds. A few cups of Coffee later, I did something that I was loath to do... went to my cabinet and extracted my brand new in the bag and box NX60 (Vertias) Block Plane Heavy, you bet sharp nope. So a few licks on the honing stone and with gentle nudges at first the plane preformed amazingly well. Planed down to just above the surface of the box then with a super sharp scraper finished it off.
Light rub with 150,240,320,400 and I'm ready for the next step.
All in all that was the some total of 6 hours solid bench time. So again I reiterate "It takes as long as it takes!"
Any attempted short cuts in the above process would undoubtedly cost more time as as I would have done more harm that good.
Woodwork is one of those demanding disiplines where sometimes it doesn't matter how many tools or machines you have it's Time, Skill and Patience that will win the day.
Post Pics later.
Cheers
Steve
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