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Being unemployed hasn't helped my stress level much, but it's starting to have an effect on the various projects around here: I've got three four window sashes glued up. nine eight more to go. I glued up two remaining cabinet doors for the kitchen Also
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A quick update about this topic . The morning after my previous post on the subject, a man from U.P.S Store HQ contacted me. He had read my post (is he a Houseblogger? Is it his job to mine the internet for words like "U.P.S." and "destroyed"?) and said
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01/18/2008 Update: I have an update to this post, which I've placed at the end. 01/23/2008 Update: I've made a second post about this, here . Once upon a time, when I was 3 or 4, my dad made me a workbench. People are always asking me how I learned to
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Nick's got all the pieces cut for the rest of the first floor windows and has done a dry fit. This week he will order the glass and after that comes, he will begin assembling them. I've been thinking about the backsplash in the kitchen and how high I
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One down, six to go. The “prototype” window is installed and fully functional. The exterior is primed but not painted; we have to wait for slightly warmer weather for that. We have a test color picked out and purchased – ready to go. Mom and dad came
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Merry Christmas! Today was a wonderful day. We stayed in our pajamas most of the day and got to watch Atticus open his presents. Without a doubt, the best present was the one that Nick made him. What do you make a toddler? Something that has everything
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Or... "You can never own too many clamps." Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left. There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them through the planer,
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Nick spent yesterday and the afternoon in the shop today. He cleaned up all the old fir that we have salvaged from the house. There were some old kitchen cabinet shelves and some old posts taken out of the walls. He cut them down to size and put them
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So Nick and I are back to work and Phil has gone back to Wisconsin. In all reality we won't be able to install the new window until Christmas time. That means Phil can be here when we do that, and it will give us enough time to prime the trim. (We are
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Nick and Phil have been busy. They say it's going a bit slower than they thought, but since this is the first window, they are being very careful. A wrong cut on this project would be a huge setback. Here's a picture of the profile of the stiles and rails:
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Day One of window building is now complete. We started the day with a trip across town to Hardwick's hardware store, in search of a window-sash router bit set. In fact, we bought a sash bit last night at Rockler, but I pretty much decided to return it
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Phil arrived today and after we had lunch, he and Nick got down to the planning: The goal for this week is to build a double hung window to replace our original 1907 windows. This is the window they will be building a replacement for this week: They measured
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Nick made good progress in the shop last weekend. He moved the workbenches and built three cabinets to go along one wall. We began to get things reorganized but still have a bit to do. That will be our goal before Nick's dad, Phil, arrives next weekend.
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After reading Jeanne's post at House in Progress , it made me think about using the router. I haven't used it much, but I did use it to make the grooves in the chalk tray for the chalkboard this weekend. It's pretty cool when you choose a bit, get it
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We built a picnic-style table for Atticus. Nick came up with the design and he let me do the cutting and most of the work. I'd like to think of myself as an apprentice- hoping to learn some of the woodworking skills that Nick has. I've got the sanding
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