scrub plane, way you do it, repurposing scrap wood

 I'm in the process of building a shaker side table.  It's been going well though I'm not ready to talk about the whole project as it's in process.  Today was a good day though.  I was able to use a scrub plane I had purchased back in Oct at a used collectors tools show.  I really like the old Stanley.  It's light weight really helped me in terms of stretching out how long I could plane the wood.  I had a 4" wide by 16" long piece of wood that I need to remove around 3/8" of wood.  I could have just as easily used my DeWalt 735 but I didn't want to use it.  Which leads to my next point.

Where I am happy in this build is I did it the way I wanted to do it.  I often find those little internal battles where I do something a certain way just because that's the way I want to do it very satisfying.  I wanted to do it by hand, and I did.  I will remember that in the future and it will bring a smile to my face.  On can argue that a bit of pine on the inside of a piece whose purpose is to just help the drawer have no sideways movement is important but inconsequential on how you get there. I would tend to agree.  Yet, I will always smile and quietly think to myself about that.  If it weren't for the fact I have a blog, no one but me would ever know of it as no point in telling anyone in my family.  Makes me wonder as I wander around looking at old furniture or old buildings of how many of these quiet, unspoken things there are that pleased the craftsperson.  I guess it's a perk of the job or trade.

The last thing I was happy with was the repurposing of a piece of pine I had laying about.  It was an offcut from when I made the Japanese carpenter's style tool box in 2020.  I have used this offcut for three other things including a backer board when chopping out waste on my chisels.  In my mind, this board was soon headed for either the fireplace or green waste as it was pretty banged up.  I was very happy that I found a purposeful life for it that will forever reside with the piece.  

Who knew a little scrap of pine could bring such joy to me.  And find some many uses.  And I would actually be able to find photos of such small obscure uses with it over the past three years.