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so the corners are rounded off not for ease of assembly, but for the ease of the ass
/thighs
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I believe you're correct. Or he accidently chipped one corner and made the rest match.
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Looks like one of grandpa's, or great grandpa's. Olde Tyme craftsmanship.
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Since everybody is playing Paul Revere yelling, the snow is coming, the snow is coming, I'll slip in another one of mine.
![]() ![]() I had tons of small scrap pieces of various types of wood, so I laid out what I wanted on a piece of plywood, kind of an oval with squared off ends, I think if I hadn't squared the ends it would have been six foot. Screwed it down to my work table. Aside; that work table is recycled bowling alley, on shortened wooden file card cabinets. I cut the pieces of wood so the were more or less pointing to the center, then glued them together and to the plywood, I didn't have a planer at the time, and cutting those little pieces to the same thickness on the tablesaw is scary. Since I'm a pussy, I figured after they were glued I'd even them up with a belt sander, but I didn't relish the amount of dust that would make in the cellar. So I took a couple of steel tubes with blocks of wood on each end, and used the router like a manual milling machine cutting the glued blocks to uniform height. Then cut the outline in the blocks and plywood with a Jig/Saber Saw and sanded smooth. Then and only then, 'cause Mama didn't raise no fools, 'cept my brother, carefully made a paper template of the opening. Took that to the mirror store and said make me a half inch beveled mirror this shape... Oh, and this side up in case my hand cut opening was a little wonky. I'd measured and eyeballed the hell out of it, but it had to be right on the money. Covered with two part Bar Finish epoxy... I'd have preferred a flat finish but chicks like shiny. Covered the back with thin plywood and the mirror is glued to that I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the reflection in the mirror. I was sure that's my spare bedroom by the half curtains and wood shutters, but it looks like a black rollaway toolbox and I never had one. After much photoshoping I discovered three's an amp and tom-toms. OK, that's when a friends band was using that room for rehearsals. Duh. ![]()
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What you won't do for the ladies.
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Whs^
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Honey, I've finished the bedroom, call our daughter and have her bring her children to see it.
![]() Every time I see one of these fantastic kid bedrooms, and this one is fantastic, I wonder if they realize how fast the kids grow up. Maybe that's why he built it strong enough for three adults. ![]()
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That is awesome. It also acts as a deterrent to adult children moving back and a honey pot for Grandchildren visiting.
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Leather doors...
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One guy in Hawaii...
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More grog, wench!
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I like that picnic table. Looks easy to make at first glance, but it's a bit trickier than it seems. Getting those flats of the logs even with one another to make a smooth table top when the logs are all different thicknesses. I imagine they are notched underneath, but would like to know.
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Could lay the half logs face down and level a plank across them. Then run a skillsaw or router along the plank to make notches of even depth to the faces.
Or rough out notches in a stringer then set the half logs in the notches with epoxy to make them even. Have to take the bark off though.
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