Veneer checking is a common occurrence in woodworking. Anyone who has to apply veneer or use veneered panels certainly understands what an unpleasant event this can be.

Teaching woodshop to kids: You can’t make it stick in their brains unless you make it stick to their fingers first. How'd my son Eryn end up crafting beer?

Sanding the details of appliqués well can be a challenge: the sand paper loses its bite as it comes up against something like that and the wood is very difficult to scratch.

The more I worked on this antique Singer sewing machine wood case, the more little defects I have found that needed to be addressed.