making rounded fence pickets

Two weeks after planting the fence posts, we pulled in an actual skilled carpenter and made a bunch of rounded-top fence pickets.

STEP 1 - Cut the picket to length.

STEP 2 - Trace the curve and cut the dog-ear at one end.

STEP 3 - Sand to a smooth curve.

Stacked pickets at the end of the day.

Clay and Ronni spent 6 hours or so yesterday getting the materials for and then constructing 168 round-top fence pickets. The star of the day by far was the RIGID oscillating edge belt / spindle sander.

Posted by john m at March 25, 2007 12:49 PM

Comments

Y'all are doing a fabulous job! You should be so proud of what you've accomplished.

Posted by: Margie at March 25, 2007 2:01 PM

Wow. You guys are insane! 168 fence pickets. By hand. Nuts...

Posted by: John at March 25, 2007 8:12 PM

waitaminit, weren't you the one who said "make your own pickets?"

Posted by: claybee at March 26, 2007 12:55 PM

And they weren't by hand we used machines!

Posted by: claybee at March 26, 2007 5:16 PM

you carpenters can be so sensitive, almost as if a poet lurked inside you...

Posted by: john m at March 26, 2007 10:32 PM

urf.

Posted by: claybee at March 27, 2007 3:29 AM