Always more than one way to skin a cat. If you like it and it works, go for it.

Nice stuff there

I'd say ipe or teak

What's with all the extra holes in the core?

Totally agree

I ended up mothballing the whole works a couple years years ago before ever getting a single board made. Now that we're debt free and the kids have stopped being born, it's time to get after it. Got the press out, wiped off the cob webs and pumped her up. 60psi, no leaks and the framework seems to h...

A properly tuned and sharpened quality hand plane can be a precision instrument in the right hands. A No. 4 smoothing plane could be used to fine tune or take off some rough spots left by a router but I'd deffinately use something else to rough it out.

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looks reasonable

I talked to Bruce from Coiler once about this. His opinion was anything more than one side full wrap with vds would make the board "stupidly" damp. So I say go for it.

Hot!

why?

Still not sure if I'm understanding your question, but here goes. I think templates are the best poor mans way of doing it. If you know how to use CAD software, draw up the shape you want and have a template cut from a piece of sheet metal. That way you can just flop it over your blank, cut, do side...

Could always do PayPal or something. You'd probably have an easier time selling it that way.

I'm impressed