polyurethane people with their glass hearts

The combination of cooperative kids and cool weather resulted in me getting a LOT done today. Two coats of polycryclic on everything (including proper sanding and cleaning between coats), so only one more to go.





I cut the back piece and the decorative base, routed it, stained it and have to poly it still. It will stick out about 1/2" from the casement and the top of the curve should be flush with the doors when I build them.



I never found drawer pulls I liked, so I'm making my own bar pulls, 3/8" square dowel cut to 3" long and then sand the bottom/back concave for fingers. I think these will be stained reddish brown to stand out from the drawers.





And I even nailed on the back





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Hidden at the bottom of the drawer they'll always be

The first block of drawers just needs staining and lining. This is actually the second pass at building these drawers. I initially used 1x stock and was very unhappy with the blockiness of the look and the roughness of the wood. So I picked up some 3/4 craft stock instead and redid 11 drawers. The drawers are all 1 3/4" deep except the top one which is 1".


The full compartment of drawers


One drawer pulled open. I suppose I'll need some sort of drawer hardware


The original drawer on the left, the new one on the right


A closer view

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We wrote a song and it really stunk

Pulled out some of my old songwriting books from high school. How is it that my friends didn't just punch me in the face constantly? I want to go back in time and hit myself for some of those lyrics. There's some stuff that I actually really like and will probably record sometime soon, but wow was a lot of it just embarrassingly bad. Like even 16 year old me should have been mortified at having written them.

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Watchin tv in the window of the furniture store

Added my YouTube channel over there in the social networking box on the left side. I plan on putting up more, when I get time to record them.

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Nothing turns out like you want it to

An alcoholic Vietnam vet postal worker once told me

Your happiness in life is inversely proportional to your expectations

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