It’s a dangerously windy day
Otherwise, lovely weather for a parade
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That’s me on the left (right arm w/ hourglass). The parade route was 0.3 miles. Pretty short, but it was still exhausting. I was going to wear a costume (mask, cape/robe), but thought better of it.
Background: our little city hosts a film festival (True/False) that kicks off with an anarchic march. The theme this year is “All the time”, so Father Time was an obvious choice.
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HOW? I already don’t want to be in the same room with it.
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everything is faced out in poplar and we can order the doors and drawer fronts. we put the glides in but we’re going to make the island before we make the drawers and shelves so the countertop guys can get started on the stone.
we also ran all the trim where we deleted the old pantry door a couple days ago. the gaps need caulk though.
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amazing work, man!
what an absolutely cool project and cause!
i don’t work in such scale, but it seems the result would be extremely rewarding.
the only print work i have ever seen at that scale was Frank Stella or Robert Rauschenberg, and i was blown away.
would love to do a large-scale woodcut print on a 4x8’ (1.2×2.4m) sheet of plywood, but then, where to find a paper or press?
i have ideas!
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You are wise beyond your years, young sqlrob. As @Docosc says, “a recipe for bloodshed.”. It’s one of the tools in my shop that falls into the category “so dangerous it’s safe”, because I will never be comfortable with it.
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Remember to wear eye protection all over your body.
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exactly!
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Fantastic!
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Holy shit, that’s gorgeous!
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What wood is the spalted middle section? Maple? Wow.
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Old maple tree my wife’s great grandpa planted 125 years ago. Tree died and had to come down, but it’s nice to be able to make some of it into nice things. Same tree i made my granddaughter’s bank out of last year. The property was called “The Maples,” and that’s what it says on the brick columns at the driveway, but they are all gone now. The last one was what crushed her van last summer. She wants to put new ones in, but we haven’t gotten around to it yet.
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building the island
the long cabinets on the right are will be a row of doors for storage
the reason for 2 dishwashers is because they host their extended families sometimes. there’s beds for I think 22 people, including those two rooms of bunk beds we built but I think I posted them @ TOP.
we put in the ¼ inch plywood for a back of each side by laying the thin cabinets on their face, fitting the plywood to their back with staples, then laying the other cabinets down on their backs and screwing all the cabs together, then tipped it up as one unit and placed it on the center lines and set it to the floor
then we built the final cabs on the end. the recycling cab is noteworthy for having a toe kick on the face and the left. never made any like that before
when we shoot the level laser on the face of the thin cabinets, the same beam hits the tops of the attached cabinets, then goes across to the top edge of all the base cabinets on the far wall. one beam. the 14 foot island is only a sixteenth of an inch difference in height from left to right. i believe that’s about 1½mm.
then we also made the shelves for the wall cabinets and now going back to Atlanta until Tuesday
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So, you’re saying it’s not actually level, then?
Seriously, it looks like it’s coming along nicely!
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