In the Shop, Yesterday and Today
Aug. 16th, 2017 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayThe grandson and I made good progress on the workshop project yesterday, getting all the pieces for the pegboard attatchment to the layout table marked, cut, and drilled. The only problem is that I had decided to use 2x3 lumber for the frame in order to minimize weight and the distance it overhangs the work surface of the table.
Unfortunately, 2x3 lumber, because of what it's used for--wall framing in the manufacture of house trailers and as spacers/nailers inside of walls or other structures--is not the best quality to begin with. And, having been in a hurry when I picked out the pieces we were using, I noticed a lot of splintering and other flaws as we started working with it.
So, I dunno. I'm thinking about picking up a pair of better-quality 2x4s this morning, cutting them to length, and then ripping them to 2x3 width before the grandson gets here to work today. That way, he'd only have to re-do the marking and drilling when he got here this afternoon.
I hate to waste any labor or material on any project but, frankly, he can use the practice and we do want a finished product that's at least minimally presentable, as well as functional, for the shop.
Anyway, I have to make that decision soon because, even though we don't have the added time constraints of an early dinner followed by soccer training, as we did yesterday and as we will have again tomorrow, I do want to be on time and on schedule for his visit today...
Later...
Went ahead and got the 2x4s, marked, cut, and drilled them so that we're ready for assembly when the grandson gets here. There's one more drilling operation on all the pieces, so he'll at least get some more practice at that although, I've gotta say, he's gotten pretty good with the drill press...
Later still...
We got the frame for the pegboard mostly assembled and it looks really good. I hadn't intended to do a lot of sanding or finishing on any of this stuff--it is, after all, a basement workshop--but when I went downstairs to have a look at it, later in the evening, I just couldn't resist picking up a sanding block and sanding some of the exposed end grain, etc.
I tell my grandson, at various intervals in the process, that "We're not building a piano," meaning let's be precise but not fussy, and there I am around midnight buffing up the 2x4s, lol...
LPK
@Dreamwidth
8.16.2016
Unfortunately, 2x3 lumber, because of what it's used for--wall framing in the manufacture of house trailers and as spacers/nailers inside of walls or other structures--is not the best quality to begin with. And, having been in a hurry when I picked out the pieces we were using, I noticed a lot of splintering and other flaws as we started working with it.
So, I dunno. I'm thinking about picking up a pair of better-quality 2x4s this morning, cutting them to length, and then ripping them to 2x3 width before the grandson gets here to work today. That way, he'd only have to re-do the marking and drilling when he got here this afternoon.
I hate to waste any labor or material on any project but, frankly, he can use the practice and we do want a finished product that's at least minimally presentable, as well as functional, for the shop.
Anyway, I have to make that decision soon because, even though we don't have the added time constraints of an early dinner followed by soccer training, as we did yesterday and as we will have again tomorrow, I do want to be on time and on schedule for his visit today...
Later...
Went ahead and got the 2x4s, marked, cut, and drilled them so that we're ready for assembly when the grandson gets here. There's one more drilling operation on all the pieces, so he'll at least get some more practice at that although, I've gotta say, he's gotten pretty good with the drill press...
Later still...
We got the frame for the pegboard mostly assembled and it looks really good. I hadn't intended to do a lot of sanding or finishing on any of this stuff--it is, after all, a basement workshop--but when I went downstairs to have a look at it, later in the evening, I just couldn't resist picking up a sanding block and sanding some of the exposed end grain, etc.
I tell my grandson, at various intervals in the process, that "We're not building a piano," meaning let's be precise but not fussy, and there I am around midnight buffing up the 2x4s, lol...
LPK
@Dreamwidth
8.16.2016
