Workshop is good.

[catsittingstill]

I really like having a workshop.

For example, we broke a board on the futon frame a few days ago.  Today I dragged the futon off it, and with the broken board sitting there, looking reproachfully at me, finally got around to fixing it.  Bought a new 1 x 6 from Lowes (bet I could have got a better price at my local lumberyard but it's not open Saturdays), measured it against the frame, took it into the shop, used my (new Christmas present) Starrett combination square to mark the cut, opened the front vise on my workbench, moved the sliding jack to the other end of the bench and put a peg in the top hole, balanced the board on the peg and the vise, and tightened up the vise to hold it in place. 

Then I could cut the board with my ryobi saw, use a plane (I ended up using the low angle block plane because it takes a slightly bigger bite than the jack plane in its current configuration, and it's lighter) to round off the edges so the mattress wouldn't catch on them, and trundle the board into the bedroom.  Where I removed the screws holding the old broken board in place and used them to attach the new board.

With a couple of pauses for thoughtful cups of tea and assurances that the bed couldn't get any more broken than it was, so if I did something wrong it wasn't that big a deal.

And now we have a working bed again.  Ta da!

Workshop is good.

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

With a couple of pauses for thoughtful cups of tea...

What was your tea thinking about? Mine will seldom tell me.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

It had nothing to say on the subject.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Aw! I'm so glad it's all "bedder." (Ducks)
Good for you for being handy, and having the space in which to fix!

Workshop is good.

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

You betcha!

[bedlamhouse]

I've been flooring my newly-insulated attic, making 10-inch-deep L-girders to lift the floor away from the existing joists to give room for the insulation.

I just said to myself yesterday, when coming upstairs from trimming a girder on the chop saw and using the table saw to cut down 3/4" plywood to fit the odd space, that there is something wonderful about having a place set up and ready to go. Pop in, make the cuts with the dust collector turned on, vacuum up the stray sawdust, and back upstairs. Wheee!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yes, very much so.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Why so worried about damaging the bed? You've successfully completed a major carpentry project--I'd have thought this would be much less challenging.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

On most of the steps of that carpentry project I also worried that I would do something wrong and ruin my progress so far. This is just part of the constant background noise in my brain, which I must push against pretty much any time I try to do something.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Now, my brain is more apt to go "Oooh, shiny!" when I try to do something.