Posts from — May 2010

I finally “hit it big” on craigslist and picked up the remains of someones deck. I finally got a call in to someone before it was all picked up and now I have a pile of 2x material that needs to be cleaned up.

I’ll end up with a pile of scrap wood as well, but I should have enough here to build at least two of the workbenches I need.
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Well, if you share my gender the answer is “yes, of course.”

We picked up a new computer desk at a friend’s yard sale. $1800 desk for $200 (before the company got tired of my presence, of course.) It’s been sitting in her garage and we finally made arrangements to pick it up.

This means that I have to do something with the current desks. The one my wife was using will go out – the shed or garage, depends on where I can find room for it. That was easy.

We live in a split level and there’s this 9×9 (or so) area at the bottom of the steps that’s been set up as our computer area. Her desk was in the back corner (it’s just a straight desk with a hutch on it) and mine (a corner unit) was on the opposite corner and it made the “wall” that separated the computer area from the remainder of the family room.
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After my time in the shop last Sunday I’ve been thinking about the work benches I want to build.

I’ll start off by making a shallow platform for the table saw to set on. It seems to be one of the things I move around more, mainly due to the length of the wood I need to process. Once I have that, it’s my reference height for the remainder of the workbenches.
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I spent a lot of the day yesterday out in the garage/shop. Didn’t get all done that I wanted to, but made some progress.

I got the wood for the new boxes worked down to the right thickness. It’s not quite as smooth as I’d like, but that’s because I took too much off with the planer and only got to run a couple of light passes with the sander. We’ll do a little bit of finish sanding once the boxes are assembled.
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