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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 the door of the island garbage pull-out Cut, assembled and glued ...

    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 to visit for the post-Christmas week and Trissa was ...

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, and then cut them to size. He then started milling all the joints and ...

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 through the planer and they look great. We're close to having enough wood for the rest of the ...

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 using the original trim for the windows.) Nick has stripped the trim, it just needs ...

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: Yesterday they finished building the frame of the window... okay I think it's ...

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 before we left the store.  There are two kinds of this bit, a single bit with a ...

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 and re-measured, referenced an article in Fine Homebuilding ...

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. The cabinets will be a great addition. In one of them we will have all the sandpaper organized ...