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The box is white now...and it’s done:

Saturday, I brushed a few coats of B-I-N primer on the box, then laid on a coat of latex paint. The first can of paint I put my hands on was a light cream we used on the trim, so I used that. Today, I drilled and counterbored holes for the lag screws and put the box in its in place. Two 6” and...

My current project isn't exactly fine woodworking. Our summer heat wave convinced us to put a ceiling fan in the master bedroom but the wrinkle is, our ceiling is pitched. The fan can be mounted on an angled ceiling but we'd rather keep it centered on the room. This calls from some kind of...

I like that profile. Any plans to put LED strip lighting behind them?

Some of our Labor Day foodage: a low country seafood boil, Alaska style: Red potatoes, corn, shrimp, and snow crab—seasoned up with some home made Old Bay, thyme, onion, and beer.

It’s an old, old pic and I have no idea what my weight was...I didn’t own a damned scale...but this was probably my heaviest ever: And here’s a snap from last month...60-ish pounds lighter than last summer:

The SensorPush is great...when it works. I’m on my third replacement of the original. The previous ones got stuck around 80-85% no matter what the ambient RH was.

Well, the grass has been cut and the wood has been fumed:

Smokin’ now.

What to do, what to do: watch wood fume... ...or...

Yep, I bought a couple of large snap-lock storage bins for this project. You can also build a frame/tent with plastic sheeting for larger pieces. Heck, back in the day I understand they treated installed molding and trim by setting containers throughout the house and closing it up.

Yep. Rather than using stain, you expose the piece to strong ammonia fumes which react with tannin in the wood, darkening it. It's a process that dates back to the late 1800s through the early 1900s and it was typical in mission style furniture. Here's a test showing unfinished white oak on...

I finished the other lid’s hinge mortises yesterday. That means today was sanding & finishing day. I had pre-sanded everything to 150-grit, so I started with 220 to hand sand a few details and lightly ease all edges and corners. The big flats got the ROS treatment with the same grit. After...

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I cut hinge mortises in the lids today:

I may have to give it a try. I just arranged for the third replacement of my original SensorPush and I'm gettin' tired of it.

Welcome from...Alaska.

Catching up on progress made... With both boxes glued up, I gave them a preliminary sanding to 150g, then made skids for the bottoms: Next came lids for the tissue compartments: Followed by some hand work to fit the Brusso hinges: Since the hinge mortises leave such a narrow strip...

You be safe up there, Brad and thanks for fighting the good fight. The Wife and I drove past the Swan Lake fire on our way to and from Homer last weekend. It was especially smoky going through the caution zone on the way back. We didn’t get to the edge of it until Summit Lake:

And here the first glue-up in the clamps/cauls: It took some planning and two dry runs to get the process down without needing six hands but the glue-up went reasonably well. I used liquid hide glue for its long open time, since there are so, so many glue surfaces to cover. The cauls worked...