Church Altar and tabernacle stand – day 9
Almost done the top surface of this thing. I pulled the clamps to see how the inlays turned out.
Clamps removed
Leveling the surface
Not bad, a little glue squeeze-out here and there, and some of the crosses were slightly taller than the oak due to the mildly excessive amount of glue that I used. I started rectifying these problems with my low angle block plane. I used it to level the surface then moved to my card scraper to finish the job and remove any glue.
Scraping off glue squeeze-out
Sanding down the crosses
After running the sander over the crosses, I took a close look to see how much patching I would need to do to hide the gaps…
Small gaps
Filling the gaps
I mixed up another couple blobs of wood filler and went crazy. Once I filled in the larger gaps, the other day, I started noticing all of the smaller ones. I filled those as well as the gaps around the crosses.
Filled and drying
I am going to have a lot of scraping to do tomorrow…
Midnight Woodworking 