Day 4 - Sayer

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 Thursday....
For better or for worse today was a busy day, most of the day was spent with the buzzing of the loudest power tool made by human beings in the background. I forget it's name but oh my god it drowns out everything else, even thoughts. But that's just me complaining, on my end today was spent primarily doing dado work. By that I mean I was cutting channels in a lot of my finalized cuts. The major things I cut were the rabbets on the side, as well as the channels for the wood to slot into to make the actual shelf compartments.

Now let me tell you, mulching a solid 3/8"x3/4" channel through plywood creates a lot of dust, now that isn't exactly the worst thing, I don't have a problem with some sawdust. The problem comes when there's more than just some sawdust, it was all-encompassing, how on earth did that must dust come out of a single piece of wood. I could probably bury myself in it.

Anyways after getting hot sawdust blown down my jacket sleeve at least three times the dado cutter broke, the welding on one of the T-bolts blew out, and Mr. Grisbee had to go down to Rockler to get a new one. After he came back he tested the new bolt, finding it didn't exactly work right. So he had to spend another 20-30 raw minutes doing hardware wizardry in order to get it functioning. After he did though I got the opportunity to blow hot sawdust down my jacket sleeve another time. Even with all my ragging on today, we did get a hell of a lot of progress on the shelf, which leads me to believe the process of dumping sawdust out of my sleeve four times was worth it.

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