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Router table finished!
I have been working on a router table based on the design of the one on Pat Warner's Website. I liked the theory, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I had…
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Pocket screws and router tables
Jenny and I spent the morning today delivering bread baked by the St. Anthony Guild at our parish to some of the shut-in parishioners. We volunteered to do this with a number of…
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I wish I had a few more arms
More work tonight. I didn't get nearly as much finished as I had hoped, though. My plan for tonight was to complete finish sanding the pocket door frame. Yesterday was spent sanding through…
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The other window: DONE!
Today was another day of good progress. Thanks to the work we did yesterday, today we were able to get the other window in the room done with its first coat of shellac. …
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Mmmm.. the smell of stripper in the air
We needed some sleep this morning, so we slept-in a bit. We were up and moving by 10AM, though. The first job for today was to get the one chair from the room…
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The big window is close to living again
Today, the big window got much closer to living again. While Jenny worked on some of the last bits of heat-gun stripping, I was able to finish sanding the trim and frame around…
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Cool!
I know we've been making progress, but today I actually felt like we were getting a little bit closer to being done with the living room. My Dad came down to help us…
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New Tools! (and more work, of course)
Earlier this week, I was pondering how to make it easier to strip paint from some of the more intricate moulding. While thinking about this, I wondered to myself how much it would…