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Finishing projects this weekend with drawer faces and pulls and BLO on the box joint box. I have also started hitting the online estate sales and getting some great deals on woodworking tools. I got the full set of Bow Clamps last night for $40, a 7x10 Wilton Wood Vice for $60 and a Leigh D4 Pro dovetail, finger joint tool for $120, all mint.

Today’s lesson learned is trying to glue up all three levels at the same time with limited work surface is not fun and leads to tons of glue cleanup.

A question for the Festool geniusseses I am going to mount the legs to the stretchers with dominoes, but I want the stretchers set back from the edge of the legs. 1/8” on the side and 1/4” on the front/back. Is there a repeatable way to do this? Never mind, found a Sedge video where he does 10mm offset and it is good enough.

Do I need some Osmo? Those are some very sexy sticks Milo & Otis or whateverthefuckitis you guys call yourselves I ended up adding another taper on the rear face of each leg as they were just too beefy for the cabinets.

In case anyone is paying attention, for legs I went with the simplest option and did tapered 1 1/2x2 sticks with the tiniest roundover. Going to do dominoes to connect these to the stretchers and then dominoes to attach to the bottom 3/4” Walnut base.

Starting the remnant search for the tops.

I am at the point now where I need to figure how to smash this stick pile into 12” legs. I am think an x brace across the bottom with the big piece with some half lap or whatever cuts in the middle and then splayed, tapered legs dominoed to the cross braces so coming out towards the corners. Hard to explain and even harder to draw up in Sketch Up so probably a disaster when I try to nail it all together. I was also trying to figure out how to mimic my actual mid-century modern dresser legs, but not sure a jig saw will get me far in making that setup.

Glue Ups for the cabinet sides are coming along nicely. The Dominos really make it much easier.

Got to try Doug’s fancy drawer building joints and the micro adjuster from Jessem. Pretty easy way to put them together on the router table. Definitely easier than switching out blades and brakes on the SawStop.

Starting a pair of bedside tables this morning. Solid Walnut with an open shelf with wireless charging and drawer for important stuff like zombie killing tools. Contemplating electronic locks on the drawers to keep the maids from trying to dust my zombie tools. Mostly a 22x18 marble shelf inset into the frame for top shelf and walnut carcass with some variant of mid-century modern legs.

Happy Birthday Al

That is Hawt as Fuk

^^^ Purdy

I have all of the UAD Plugins and the 88rs is one that I use quite often for non-musical vocal work.

I told the realtor I would take the 3 car garage with the shop above but did not need the house. They did not think the owner would go for that.

Dude made some pretty cool giant trains as a hobby I guess. The drill press could come in handy. Also has ton of vintage microscopes from the old parent company of Leica.

Visited an open house down the street. Should I try to buy all of this?

Finally opened up the fancy little honing thing from Lie-Nielsen. Seems to be slightly better quality than the $20 Rockler one.

I have been buying Norton replacements for the belt. Have not even tried a tube yet.

I have a Woodriver 4 1/2. It seems nice. The Bridge City one is still on back order so I have no idea if they are any good. I definitely need one more little Woodpecker thing to fill this annoying gap.

The little Lie-Nielsen and honing guide finally made it out of UPS purgatory and were delivered. The block plane is dramatically less substantial than the Stanley version. Feels much better in use and things do not seem to just magically loosen up in use like the Stanley Sweetheart.

To make it even worse it somehow gave me carpal tunnel syndrome and ever since putting it together my left wrist is fucking shot. Can’t even pick anything up with my left hand since.

Nothing with the function, I like suction and how quiet it is. The putting together part is a cluster as it seems every screw is positioned exactly to have as little access as possible to it. Needed to use 4 different lengths of drivers and one screw head in a ratchet for the 16ish screws. Then you have to balance the fucking motor on top of the frame while trying to blindly find the holes that cannot be seen without standing on your head risking dropping the 80 pound thing on said head.

I am going to flip the router table tonight so I can screw on the Dust Right box tomorrow when I get some screws. Not sure I can fit anything else in my shop at this point.

The Ridgid seems pretty good, especially after I went to aftermarket paper. Really only used the belt sander up to this point. The Dust Right on the other hand is about five minutes from being rolled up the driveway for trash pickup tomorrow.