Coolest thread on the cellar right now

You're just saying that because your bike is done. :)

and because i couldn't just hit the like button

oh.. and it's not quite done. I got the White Walls. They go on Weds. My birthday pressie to me.

Just say NO.

I already built a spindle sander for the drill press. Besides, blenders are way too fast.

CANNIBAL!

This.
And maybe that.

I'm realizing that a city boy with a bike cart would never have to go to the lumber yard. That is cool.

It's amazing how regularly furniture gets thrown away around here. It's rare for it to be in good enough shape to use as furniture, but 50% of the time it's made of good enough material to be useful. Ikea is the exception of course. I don't even really count their stuff as furniture, even though I own some of it myself.

I'm tempted to try that. Totally pointless, but would be amusing.

8/16 Tuesday evening
Over the previous weekend, I spied a nasty looking table in the trash. It was a small card table sized table, and had been used as a craft table. The top was a scratched up formica top, covered in spilled paint and wood underneath was swollen and nasty looking from variuos spills. But the apron and legs looked to be in sound condition, and solid wood. So I took it home, threw out the table top, and saved the rest. The hidden parts of the aprons had a dark stain but no finish. I lightly scraped them to make them flat and glued them up. These are going to be for the trunnion supports for the table top.
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I stuck them in the vise and clamped them up to dry.

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8/17 Wednesday - another hour or so this evening.

I ripped my glued up table aprons to width and cut them to length

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The top and bottom arc of the trunnion supports are described by different radiuses (radii?) from a point that would be floating in space. So I clamped a cutoff from the same stock next to my work piece and measured to find that point.
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My layout lines are hard to see. I was being lazy before by not sanding the finish off, and now I regret it. But with the work I went through to draw those lines, I'm not about to go back now and clean this up. Also, I'm realizing that having a functioning band saw would be extremely helpful right now to cut this out.
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8/20 Saturday - I can work for a couple hours because it's the weekend.

First I cut the corner of each work piece off on the table saw. That's easy enough.
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Then I use a saber saw to cut about an eight of an inch away from the line. Saber saws suck. They struggle through thick maple, and the blade kept pulling out so I would have to put it in again. If I tighten it too much to keep it from falling out, then I will break the brittle metal. So I cut for 30 seconds at a time and then replace the blade that fell out. The cut is crap.
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I say fuck it when it comes to cutting the arc on the bottom of these parts. It's just there for aesthetic reasons, and I cut a notch instead to do the same thing.
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