I am in the process of making a new table for my patio. It is a trestle design with the trestles being white oak. My design uses a total of 8 large 1 inch wide mortises. I am using a router to cut the mortises but it of course leaves round corners.
In chiseling the corners square it the white oak seems to be blunting my chisels very quickly. Not sure if I have just done a bad sharpening job or if the white oak is just very hard. Anybody else have any experience with chisels and white oak?
In chiseling the corners square it the white oak seems to be blunting my chisels very quickly. Not sure if I have just done a bad sharpening job or if the white oak is just very hard. Anybody else have any experience with chisels and white oak?
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