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Woodworking day...
Oct. 24th, 2010 01:33 amSpent the afternoon working with my dad on the new chicken-mobile. It's coming along nicely. We are building it onto a trailer frame and it will have their food, nesting boxes, and roosting house, to enable them to be easily moved from place to place. Today we got a wooden foundation built onto the trailer. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it meant finalizing the size and general design of the thing, so it's actually kind of a big step. We stopped once we were done with that part as the next step requires first purchasing a couple 4x8 sheets of plywood.
After that my dad noticed that one of the doors in the shed is no longer opening and closing and went about fixing it.
While he was doing that I started work on repairing a drawer in Josh's dresser. You see, back in 2004, during the summer after I graduated from Mudd, we were staying with Josh's parents, preparing to move into our first real place together, and we bought this bedroom set at a garage sale. The bed was kind of funky and has since been replaced, but the dressers are really nice. Well, I thought so anyway. Josh has been complaining about his not being nice enough for ages. Eventually, just a few weeks ago, I figured out why he felt that way. The top drawer of his dresser was missing the wooden track that would make it slide nicely. Instead it's been working about as well as the drawer in the funkiest piece of garage sale furniture you've ever touched. Today I made a replacement modeled off the track on the second drawer down. With some guidance from my dad on choosing the right tools and using the table saw for the first time. Once we thought we were done we brought it in and found that it worked great in the slot where the second drawer goes (aside from being too short), but not so well where it belongs. Turns out the rail for the top drawer was a little off center, so we ended up fixing that too. It's not quite as good as new, but it again has very good motion. This is an exceptionally well built piece of furniture, as close examination shows, and that drawer no doubt had exceptional motion when it was new. Yay for high quality cheap garage sale furniture, and yay for learning how to fix it so that it can again live up to it's potential!
After that my dad noticed that one of the doors in the shed is no longer opening and closing and went about fixing it.
While he was doing that I started work on repairing a drawer in Josh's dresser. You see, back in 2004, during the summer after I graduated from Mudd, we were staying with Josh's parents, preparing to move into our first real place together, and we bought this bedroom set at a garage sale. The bed was kind of funky and has since been replaced, but the dressers are really nice. Well, I thought so anyway. Josh has been complaining about his not being nice enough for ages. Eventually, just a few weeks ago, I figured out why he felt that way. The top drawer of his dresser was missing the wooden track that would make it slide nicely. Instead it's been working about as well as the drawer in the funkiest piece of garage sale furniture you've ever touched. Today I made a replacement modeled off the track on the second drawer down. With some guidance from my dad on choosing the right tools and using the table saw for the first time. Once we thought we were done we brought it in and found that it worked great in the slot where the second drawer goes (aside from being too short), but not so well where it belongs. Turns out the rail for the top drawer was a little off center, so we ended up fixing that too. It's not quite as good as new, but it again has very good motion. This is an exceptionally well built piece of furniture, as close examination shows, and that drawer no doubt had exceptional motion when it was new. Yay for high quality cheap garage sale furniture, and yay for learning how to fix it so that it can again live up to it's potential!
