Posting quick
Jul. 28th, 2015 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillYou know, I haven't posted in just about forever. And at some point I'll get back to what I was doing but for now I just want to observe that I am cutting and sanding wood strips (white pine) for a new project. I used a bandsaw to do the cutting, which worked...okay and now I'm using a conical sanding wheel (very shallow cone, but this lets you sand the edge of a board, or the side of a strip 1) smooth and flat and 2) to a desired width) to sand them all.
And let me tell you, there is an astonishing amount of sawdust involved. I'm only about half done and I have completely filled a shopvac vacuum bag. When I quit work today I was sawdust to the elbows; I had safety glasses over my glasses and my glasses were still hazed with sawdust. I had sawdust dusted on my hair and caked in the sweat on my neck. I vacuumed myself off and then went outside and brushed myself off with the little brush for the dust pan and I still made Kip cough when I walked through the kitchen.
Hopefully I can finish up the sanding by Thursday.
And let me tell you, there is an astonishing amount of sawdust involved. I'm only about half done and I have completely filled a shopvac vacuum bag. When I quit work today I was sawdust to the elbows; I had safety glasses over my glasses and my glasses were still hazed with sawdust. I had sawdust dusted on my hair and caked in the sweat on my neck. I vacuumed myself off and then went outside and brushed myself off with the little brush for the dust pan and I still made Kip cough when I walked through the kitchen.
Hopefully I can finish up the sanding by Thursday.
