[TheForge] Re: slit & drift question

[Mike Spencer]

> The problem I have with split and drift is that for squared pickets
> (not diamond) it is really hard, if not nearly impossible, to work
> the v at the ends of the slit to a squared opening.  But then this v
> is really an honest expression of the process.

At least in smallish stock, I found the hardest thing was keeping the
orientation of the eye aligned with the stock.  The first even
slightly ambitious piece I did was an end table using 1/2" through
1/2" square grillwork.  Nobody on hand to tell me it was too hard for
a novice so I did it anyway.  I think I still have laying around,
35 years later, some of the discarded 1/2" square bars with square but
wrong and unrepairable square eyes in them.

- Mike

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