Head case

Okay, so today I finally got off my arse and entered the wonderful world of woodwork. At school I showed absolutely no aptitude during Mr (Jimmy "check your jobs") Wild's woodwork classes, and it seems the intervening 20 years have changed nothing.

My task for the day was to cut the neck to make an angled head. This is done by sawing diagonally through the wood and gluing the reversed piece making a scarf joint.

Like the fool I am,I thought this part was going to be a doddle. I couldn't have been more wrong.

A combination of the wrong type of saw, the lack of some sort of sawing jig and my woeful skills, led to an awful cut.
Huzzar! My first problem.

Putting the cut piece on top of the larger piece, the angles should match, creating one smooth slope. As you can see from the photo, I bolloxed it right up.

After some frenzied chiseling, rasping, filing and sanding, I managed to get the angles smoother. A little more work and I'll be ready to glue the pieces together.

Today I learnt that this project is not going to be as easy as I thought.

First blood!