Day 4 - Sutton

From the perfect weather to the pleasant drone of power tools, today was rather awesome. 

As I walked through the door to the Tinkeria, I was immediately bombarded by questions from Mr. Grisbee about my cord wrapping practice. Clearly, he was not concerned with concealing his fear and intimidation. He told me that it took him many years to master the technique, so I shouldn’t be worried. P.S. I was not worried.  

I then checked on my boards and determined they were successfully stuck together. I detached the clamps, used sand paper to brush off some glue stains, and marveled at the beauty of my creation. Since Sayer was hogging the table saw and Mr. Grisbee’s attention, I was forced to wait and contemplate how I was going to achieve the mountain cut-out affect on the sides of the dog bowl stand. I had just about finished an awful gameplan (but a gameplan, nonetheless), when Mr. Grisbee said I could use the table saw to cut down my boards. We ran into a slight challenge since one of my boards didn’t have a straight edge that we could use to make the cuts. To clarify, this was not my fault. Rather, I would quote Maestra in that it was just “the way that it is.” While the jointer ended up saving the day, I am grateful for this problem because it gave me an opportunity to clarify my project details with Mr. Grisbee. After lots of talking, drawing, and yelling “what?”’s through our masks, I determined that I will be no longer doing the mountain cut-outs on the sides, but will just be doing the splined miter joints. This will make for a more sleek and sophisticated look which I think Baker will like. 

Before lunch, I began the milling process for the sides of the dog water bowl stand. I cut, jointed, and planed four pieces and I think it safe to say that you can totally hire me if your wood needs a makeover. We enjoyed lunch outside in the beautiful weather and then returned to work. I finished the milling process and glued my boards together all by myself. Mr. Grisbee also showed me the tool we will be using tomorrow to cut the circles out of my wood for the dog bowls. I cleaned up my workspace and snapped some photos. I then started on my blog and then watched Catherine plane her pieces which was very satisfying. 

All in all, I made great headway on my project today and feel surprisingly relieved that I don’t have to figure out how to do the mountain cuts on the sides any more. I believe I will have time to do another project so I will start brainstorming that (probably a charging station or some sort of box). Bye!