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Took out everything and laid it on the table
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I was making a 2:3 ratio cross, so had to do the math...
with a little help from Nokia calculator
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Drew in the lines for the horizontal bar to be cut
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Taking action (over the dustbin to catch the sawdust)
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Fail lah, cannot match!
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The final product - okay lah, not TOOOOO bad, still quite even
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This is the machine-cut side
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Now for the cross-bar: both the wood blocks need to be
cut 50% through so that it'll fit together neatly
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After some failed attempts at trying to cut it, I decided to abuse
my electric screwdriver's drill function to cut "perforations"
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It seemed to work at first...
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...but still cannot.
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Time for the big guns - I went searching for my
wood carving set which last saw light in 2004...
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In the end I decided to use my screwdriver
drill...abused it so badly that it broke off in protest.
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After a couple more hard saws, success!
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The whole chunk of block came off
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But it was still kind of not smooth, so had to saw some more
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this is how it looks like, one piece 50% sawn through
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Not too badly done; a bit uneven, but this is an amateur job.
My abused electric screwdriver is in the background.
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Here's the attempt on the 2nd piece of wood
(the longer vertical part of the cross)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7vMB1bFc19K5L_U9_7NQUOuL0Cmz-VDO4D4QBtj8oefW6Ct-uMV4-GPQjPQRN_00oRm6f7zhL44LTS-Bt36dRJ2f5cPvVaNgTw_6qwGvCTQIkwyCeExV4N1kQxZzQxVEWMNt/s400/IMG_4252+%2528Small%2529.JPG)
After many "triangles" were cut off, it's always
the horizontal edging is the hardest to smoothen
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But hey! It fits together pretty well...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIj_5HCmHI2_hLMoYJCTk5hsC3WqSpq5JpZKEY7UR0MfSwbFdxKXM0iTApOJLJzbsrd11mjZruYOS9x4T2kGFsKYfapyqXFFKwdhoLYnFAqcayYvJOxM7xLAH5mUvGzPm0YsoM/s400/IMG_4255+%2528Small%2529.JPG)
A bit of gap here and there, but not bad.
Tonight I'll do the other bit with the MDF to secure the cross to the board, so that it can stand.