So when you are washing your hands your Right elbow would be jammed up against the wall? hmmmm I will just pee out back of your garage and wash my hands from your hose.
I grew up on a farm so I'm with you on that one. I still drink from the hose and I taught my kids to drink from the faucet - much to Judiaann's consternation. Nadia did that at school one day in front of me and a teacher and the teacher looked at me in shock, "I have no idea where she learned that!" Oh, I taught her that.
Huge congrats on a stunning home & Shop!
Your months turned into hours for me- please keep us informed of even the smallest achievements- or setbacks....
Anyway, get back to work- your ALMOST done!
Thanks! and oh, I have small achievements (that's what she said!). It's all I have every day, very small victories. I oscillate between hopeful and hopeless every week. Umm, Christmas, yeah, not this year dammit.
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Okay, on to small victories.
I blocked out the bathroom wall for the vanity. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to do this before - I mean, I blocked the entire opposite wall just so I could put a towel bar anywhere on it's length. Oh well.
One thing that was bugging me was the sloppy nature of my pocket holes. I've been using a Porter Cable jig and it seems the holes are sloppier than I remember so I bit the bullet and bought a Kreg jig even though the functionality of the Porter Cable one is nicer (it auto adjusts for width and depth).
An aside: One of the great things about having a lathe in your workshop is the instant ability to whip up adapters when things like the vacuum port of the jig are too small. The mill is more useful but the lathe seems to get used more.
But the proof is in the pudding as they say - who is they by the way? What pudding? Kreg on the right and Porter Cable on the left.
I think that the problem with the Porter Cable is that they put a lot of thought into the design and then cheaped out on the actual drill guide making only the top part in steel. The Kreg is steel all the way down and the tolerance is tighter. Yeah, down the road I'll make a steel sleeve for the Porter Cable - you know, because who doesn't blueprint their pocket hole jig?
Umm, what else? Oh, right the vanity that I'm building. I finished the carcass but need to wait on my drywall repair before I can install it. I have avoided the fast set compound because I didn't want to mix it but I'm now ready to do anything to speed the process. That and because I now have a slop sink that works in the laundry room so I can wash stuff in a sink instead of a bucket. Yes, small victories indeed.
Along the way I discovered a way to keep my drill from blowing out the other side. Probably basic stuff but it's part of my march toward "better". I drill a small pilot hole in the back and then mark the depth of the cut on the hole saw with a marker so I know when to stop and switch sides. Works a treat.
Lastly I decided to start work on the workbench while waiting for the compound to dry. I wanted more practice on keeping tolerance and it's working.
I'm so slow the plywood I'm using was trees when I started this. It was also my first time using true Russian Baltic Birch which comes in 5' x 5' sheets and it a bit more money than regular plywood. But it's worth it. The thin veneers just cut nicer and machine nicer. Difficult to carry however.
Okay, I'm getting closer. I want so much to work on the weekends that I'm considering telling Judiaann that I'm going to watch a football game with my dad so I can sneak over to the house to put in a few more hours.
Gregor
