The rasp is a multitude of sanding, it cleans it up. This is what I do before I start sanding. Rounding off all of these raggedy edges, all these little raggedy edges I get busy on. Smoothing off the edges, giving it some elegant. This is an old piece of Sycamore so, the surface has been exposed to the sun, so the rasping part is very easy. There is no skin on it. What do I mean by skin? I am talking about this stuff, Sycamore, Sycamore. But it has already been flaked off because of the weather sitting around, that is why I had to filler in so much. But underneath the wood is just great, it is nice piece of wood, excellent piece of wood. That is why I said if I had one wood to use and one wood only, it would be Sycamore. Really nice lumps and bumps, it is a nice character. I don't want to discourage anybody about the length of time, but time is relative. I will move around on pieces and I will be inspired some days and I will just do sanding. But my most fun is just attacking a piece, brand new, just getting into it for our first time, but time wise it depends on the wood. If it is Oak, Oak takes a while to clean up. Oak can take a couple of days to clean up back and forth, here and there, an hour here, an hour there. Just getting the clean lines like what I am doing now for Oak. But with Sycamore I can be, like I said this can be, it is going to have some color on it by time it got dark, if I just stay on it for another couple of hours. This will take another couple of hours for me to complete. It will take another three, maybe four hours for me to say, well man that is a nice piece, I can't do no more to it, it is finished, it is filled in. But from this point on I would say it would take me another three hours of sanding and cleaning up before I would be able to put some stain on it and hang it up.
