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No crack-puttying yesterday--I let a threatening sky talk me out of it.
No crawl-space clearing out either.
I did make the program for the LWV Candidates forum, and (with Kip's help) make fifty copies of it. I don't know if this will be enough, but it's what I can afford.
But--I did cut out the second thwart, smooth the convex edges of the thwarts with the Shopsmith sander, smooth the concave edges of the thwarts by hand (diagonal scrapes with the curved scraper I made for shaping the inside of the boat worked best, though I also use a rasp and a file and my little rat tail file--Shopsmith makes a drum sander attachment, sigh.) I also drilled all the holes for the caning of the seat, chamfered the edges of the holes with a chisel (minimum four cuts per hole because of the way the chisel and the wood grain work, or don't, together) and used the router on everything. I will be picking shavings out of the light fixtures for three days, and a router can make mistakes in the blink of an eye that would take hours to make by hand, but it went okay.
But sanding everything to the point where I could seal it with epoxy was out of the question. Maybe today.
No crawl-space clearing out either.
I did make the program for the LWV Candidates forum, and (with Kip's help) make fifty copies of it. I don't know if this will be enough, but it's what I can afford.
But--I did cut out the second thwart, smooth the convex edges of the thwarts with the Shopsmith sander, smooth the concave edges of the thwarts by hand (diagonal scrapes with the curved scraper I made for shaping the inside of the boat worked best, though I also use a rasp and a file and my little rat tail file--Shopsmith makes a drum sander attachment, sigh.) I also drilled all the holes for the caning of the seat, chamfered the edges of the holes with a chisel (minimum four cuts per hole because of the way the chisel and the wood grain work, or don't, together) and used the router on everything. I will be picking shavings out of the light fixtures for three days, and a router can make mistakes in the blink of an eye that would take hours to make by hand, but it went okay.
But sanding everything to the point where I could seal it with epoxy was out of the question. Maybe today.
