What a boring old fuck I must seem to you people...
So I've been playing with my wood, right?
I had to cut the big board into shorter pieces, which meant that I had to figure out which end of the board I wanted to use to make this amplifier cabinet. This was the nicest board they had at the lumber yard, but it's still far from perfect (which is a drag because I paid about thirty bucks for it).
To get an idea as to what this wood would look like after I applied the lacquer finish, I wet it with some rubbing alcohol.
So I looked and measured and stared and contemplated, then I marked off some lengths and started cutting.
Here I'm trying out my ryoba nokogiri to trim a couple inches off the end (to eliminate the cracks there).
Then I made the actual cuts with the table saw.
You can see that the board is starting to "cup" as it dries, which is not what I want, so after I made the cuts I faced the boards together:
Then clamped the fuck out of them:
I parked the assemblage on top of the heater and cranked it down to it's lowest setting:
With any luck I'll have nice straight, flat boards to work with...
Thankfully, I had help and supervision:
So I've been playing with my wood, right?
I had to cut the big board into shorter pieces, which meant that I had to figure out which end of the board I wanted to use to make this amplifier cabinet. This was the nicest board they had at the lumber yard, but it's still far from perfect (which is a drag because I paid about thirty bucks for it).
To get an idea as to what this wood would look like after I applied the lacquer finish, I wet it with some rubbing alcohol.
So I looked and measured and stared and contemplated, then I marked off some lengths and started cutting.
Here I'm trying out my ryoba nokogiri to trim a couple inches off the end (to eliminate the cracks there).
Then I made the actual cuts with the table saw.
You can see that the board is starting to "cup" as it dries, which is not what I want, so after I made the cuts I faced the boards together:
Then clamped the fuck out of them:
I parked the assemblage on top of the heater and cranked it down to it's lowest setting:
With any luck I'll have nice straight, flat boards to work with...
Thankfully, I had help and supervision:
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I know I do, to tell you the truth the only reason I stayed at that place this long is because me and her became good friends, I don't have many friends so I knew when I came to work that I would have at least one person to talk to, I have become friends with other people there but she was my best friend. I'm afraid that I will have to get another factory job, I told her that if she can't get her job back I will get a job with her, she doesn't have a car and she was ridding to work with her ex boyfriend who she still lives with, I hope we can find a job we can both do that isn't a factory job.