Wooden Carcasses
The workshop is progressing as is the kitchen project. The cabinets are built in stages and each stage can be batched. This is more efficient but also means that a lot of work occurs before there is much to show for it. As an example, over the past five days I have been converting a large pile of prefinished birch plywood into lots of smaller piles. Today, in just five hours, I converted all of those smaller piles into the base cabinet carcasses.
On the one "day off" Zen came to visit and found the new outfeed table for the saw to be most interesting. <silly dog>
The next stage is to turn the large sheets of "plyboo" (bamboo plywood) into small piles which will be the rails and stiles of the face frames, doors, and drawer fronts. <grown>
COOL BEANS, MAN!! It’s great to see the shop in work mode and things moving along. Congrats.
The challenge now is that I am already burned out and still have about 2/3rds of the work left (all the face frames and all the drawers). I’ll have to find a way to break it into more manageable pieces of work. I’m going to be happy with the final product but it’s a lot more work that I anticipated. It will be interesting to go back and look at what my labor rate would be compared to buying the cabinets. … then there is tiling the bathroom …
I think Zen is just proud of how nice she looks against the unfinished plywood.
I see Zen on the table and a table saw and I hear a James Bond villain, saying something like “So Zen, the time has come…” and the blade starts to rotate and Zen is slowly moved towards the sharp spinning blade…
“Do you expect me to talk ?”
“No, I expect you to die !”
… who was that canine ? Pug. Zen the Pug.