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Got summoned to a job sight to "drop in a new door". "Should take you about 20 minutes." Yeah, yeah. I hear this all the time. So I arrive at the jobsite and the rough opening is two inches less than the width of the new door. The door is also a 20 minute fire rated door, from the house into the garage, and as a first for me, it is milled out for a threshold, but there isn't one on the door. At least I got to try out two of my new tools. After cutting the sheetrock back with my new, ultra quiet 18v multi tool, My new beast of a 36v reciprocating saw, had the jack and king studs out in a few minutes. After relocating them 2 1/4" back, I then went to the builders supply store, where I found a threshold to fit the door. Had the door opening resized and door and trim installed in about 2 hours. Then got busy on the mail slot that the boss forgot to mention. "You'll be done in 5 minutes". Yeah, right. After encountering 1/2" of stucco and steel lath, I dug out one of my 4" grinders with a masonry blade. 15 minutes and clouds of dust later, I had the opening for the new mail slot cut. After finding my 1/8" tile bit, I managed to drill the holes to hold the slot in place. Now to install the overly complex Baldwin doorknob and deadbolt. "Oh, there's also a little bit of baseboard upstairs I forgot to tell you about." Now I've pulled out my miter saw and half of the tools that I own, and my "20 minute" job has turned into 6 hours.

Happy Birthday Mikey!

Get better Frisco! I had a dog (before Suzy) that had to go on anti-siezure medication. It helped immensely.

DEXTER: New Blood Glad to have the serial killer's serial killer back.

RIP Julie and Dean.

Looks really good!

I agree with Doug. Looks great for the first coat. You may even make the cover of DUNGEON MONTHLY

Yes. The vinegar takes much longer to dry than alcohol based stains. It won't be dry enough to spray today. At least not without the help of a heater/fan.

There's still enough room between those bars for someone to grab your curious poodle, and threaten to snap it's neck unless you release them. "It puts the lotion in the basket".

Agreed.

If it's the same guy that used to refurbish them, he no longer does. He had a year long waiting list back when he did work on them. I bought my M22 because it was already refurbished by him.

I guess I'll just have to hope that Jeff hasn't made us an accessory to some type of dungeon he's actually building. Checking his area for missing persons now.

Are those the ones cooled with Stolichnaya instead of Ferrofluid?

Wonderful work. However, as a gay man, I have to say that everytime I scroll past the title of this thread, for a split second I'm expecting something completely different.

Certainly a bad run of luck Al. Graham, it's good to see you posting. I was worried when I went into Fairfax Scoop, because they said they hadn't seen you in three days.

Yes, I believe you're right. But in my opinion he's taken it way too far.

Dated now for sure, but in 1973 it was scary as all hell! Especially when you were watching it in the theater at age 12!

^ Agreed. Stain never looks natural. That technique does.

That Curly Maple is gonna dance with some finish on it.

What does the Homosexual Otters Association have to do with building permits?

So you need to buy your kids hamsters now. It's Woodish, which is a derivative of Elvish.

My PC is starting to fail me, but I'm not sure that I'm even going to replace it. I do 99% of everything on my phone today.

You're reference map of Australia is a bit off. Other than that it looks fantastic! 😛

Very true. Point taken.