you clamp & glue & THEN you screw
The sky was doing this when I got outside. Not very promising but I figured I’d get as far as I could before the skies opened.
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I make things
step 1: buy lots thing
I called my aunt on the way to Home Despot today, & opened the conversation with I AM ABOUT TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY Yep, I was whining. But that’s how it goes. We had a lovely chat. Turns out my uncle bought a van & has been converting it into a lovely tiny travelling
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measuring & planning & sketching
Friday night, I got home from Albuquerque, took a HOT bath, & went the hell to bed, cos it turns out that handing someone that much money at once is a BIT stressful & also, tiring. … the LARGE plate of lo mein I bought & consumed on the way home probably helped with that,
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TRAILER
That was pretty much my first view of MY trailer that is MINE & that I can do what I want with. It was a BIT OVERWHELMING. I mean, though, also awesome! Also stacked behind a bunch of other trailers, on account of it was done a week ago & I didn’t get the voicemail
a Combined Post!
Yes, this is both your cats & progress post for this week, on account of I’m picking up the trailer on Friday & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa But I finished up the worktable, complete with shelf & lumber storage, & LOOK AT IT, IT IS SO GOOD Also Major Tom likes it a lot. Here, he is saying
a new process
Yesterday I picked up my new trailer. Today I did a bunch of measuring & planning & sketching & taking pictures & stuff. If I stick with my usual schedule of posting process posts only once a week, I’ll either be barely sketching out what I’m doing, or posting once a week well into 2023,
makin it pretty
I’ve spent most of the week working on what I’m calling ‘tinker’s wagon infrastructure’, or stuff that’s gonna make the build easier — from buying a bench vise to making cutting guides specifically tailored to work with my roommate’s circular saw, thus allowing me, for the first time in my life, to cut wood, or
those other shelves
IT TURNS OUT that if you use right-angle thingers & clamps to hold your 2×2 pieces together, & then GLUE them into place, & ONLY THEN do you drill the pilot holes & put in the wood screws, it works a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
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pavilion poles: a process
Specifically, the ‘putting spikes into each pole to loop ropes over’ part. Since I’d bragged on Twitter that I’d worked out a process, here it is!
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all that sewing’s finally getting somewhere
not that I’m remotely done with the sewing, mind you I think a lot of you are familiar with what my booth usually looks like. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the top picture is what I’ve been running with for the last several years. It’s a pretty standard wedge tent, with one
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