It felt really good to get started on the first paid project for the new woodshop. It should be a lot of fun to make. What I did this week would have taken at least twice as long in my old shop. The expensive machines already start to pay off! It's also really amazing being able to ask neighbor Rick questions. He has such great solutions.
Got a sled built for making the box joints and figured out how to use the dado stack. Also got all the machines waxed up to protect the surfaces and help the wood slide smoothly. They stopped making the stuff that most people used, but it's so popular among woodworkers that it is selling for close to 150 bucks for tin of it now. I found an alternative, but Rick has the good stuff and he was quite surprised that it had become so valuable.
The girls also had Monday off and Wednesday afternoon, so we went to the ski hill twice. It was a lot of fun! The last run on Monday had the only two big wipeouts of the week. Abigail felt confident and wanted to hit a jump going way too fast. Amélie saw the wipeout and went to investigate, but got too close, and to avoid crashing into her sister she went flying into the trees. They both ended up being fine, but it took some time to untangle the mess and dry the tears.
On Friday we had a really nice party at French Claire's house. She invited lots of international people over. Still surprised with the people we meet in the UP! The food was great and the girls had a lot of fun playing with a few other kids.
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| Special treat!! |
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| Having a blast on the mountain. |
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| Testing the bend radius of the santos mahogany. It won't bend far! |
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| Fabricated the vertical pieces. |
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| The rough idea. |
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| Decent alternative for waxing the machines. |
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| Box joint jig up and running. |
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