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Janet and I started cutting parts for her tv & speaker stands today.
Somehow, I had it in my brain that the oak 2x2s that Menards carries were full cut (2" square). They're really 1-½" square. Fortunately, this only affected two of the pieces (the two center rails on the upper part of the tv stand came out an inch two short). I picked up a 4' piece of oak to cut new ones out of, and everything is all better now.
I've got a plan worked out for the mitered corners of the tops that uses three R3 biscuits in a U shape (two parallel to the table top and one perpendicular), with a pocket screw (mini-Kreg jig, 4-½" bit depth, ¼" offset from the inside of the joint) in the center of them. Tomorrow I need to get different screws - I don't have any self-tapping screws on hand and regular wood screws will split the oak as I can't find a good combination of other bits to pilot drill the pocket hole.
Also, there's an amazing amount of sawdust all over the garage. Not that that's unusual, but now there's an oak layer on top of the pine and PVC in all the corners I haven't vacuumed out recently.
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teeka went out vending today for the first time this year. It was a really nice day and didn't rain like they said it would. She says she did OK, sales-wise, but it would have been better if they could have gotten rid of the panhandlers that were shaking cups for change right next to where she was set up - it creates sort of a "bubble" around her booth where the passersby won't stop because they're avoiding the bums.
We also took Teeka's mom out to dinner at the Essenhaus. We like it a lot more now that it's non-smoking and Teeka can actually breathe in there. She's visiting for the next week because she needed to get out of the house (and the north woods), in a cabin fever-y kind of thing.
Somehow, I had it in my brain that the oak 2x2s that Menards carries were full cut (2" square). They're really 1-½" square. Fortunately, this only affected two of the pieces (the two center rails on the upper part of the tv stand came out an inch two short). I picked up a 4' piece of oak to cut new ones out of, and everything is all better now.
I've got a plan worked out for the mitered corners of the tops that uses three R3 biscuits in a U shape (two parallel to the table top and one perpendicular), with a pocket screw (mini-Kreg jig, 4-½" bit depth, ¼" offset from the inside of the joint) in the center of them. Tomorrow I need to get different screws - I don't have any self-tapping screws on hand and regular wood screws will split the oak as I can't find a good combination of other bits to pilot drill the pocket hole.
Also, there's an amazing amount of sawdust all over the garage. Not that that's unusual, but now there's an oak layer on top of the pine and PVC in all the corners I haven't vacuumed out recently.
In other news,
teeka went out vending today for the first time this year. It was a really nice day and didn't rain like they said it would. She says she did OK, sales-wise, but it would have been better if they could have gotten rid of the panhandlers that were shaking cups for change right next to where she was set up - it creates sort of a "bubble" around her booth where the passersby won't stop because they're avoiding the bums.We also took Teeka's mom out to dinner at the Essenhaus. We like it a lot more now that it's non-smoking and Teeka can actually breathe in there. She's visiting for the next week because she needed to get out of the house (and the north woods), in a cabin fever-y kind of thing.
