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Workshop is good.
Jan. 16th, 2010 05:03 pmI 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.
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.
