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October 4, 2013

Vladivostok!

I was working on this beauty this morning. With the stummel basically completed (just wax and polish to follow), I started on the stem.
 Being a bit impatient, I forced the tenon into the mortise and heard the faintest sound of wood going "crack".
We learn from our mistakes, I suppose...