| Blog series by WhiskeyWaters | updated 672 days ago | 3 parts | 430 reads | 5 comments total |
Part 1: First Day
Got roughly three hours of work in today, and somewhat along on the project – kids got all the x’d pieces cut to length. Ran out of 2×4 even. Tomorrow plan on getting the rest cut down, and find a quick and kid-friendly way to create the lap joints and dadoes. For those of you wondering, this project will be going very very slow. Its a tad quicker when a person don’t have to explain to/manage twenty children at the same time. First time techniques – I tau...
Part 2: Second Day Build.
I’m beat ladies and gentleman. Whupped. Snowed today (gives away my region of the US). After going sledding and doing doughnuts in the municipal police parking lot during lunch, I got back to work and taught/learned some woodworking. All the supports are finished, and the dadoes and lap joints are cut out. For the lap joints, (and dadoes) I set the depth on the circ saw and made a number of cuts through the waste wood. Then I took a chisel with some of the children and malleted ...
Part 3: Third Day
Finished, no pictures yet. Joints look strong, the kids did a great job getting ‘em just so. I’m going to add some braces for strength (it racks? is that it when it shimmies if you push it around?), but before they get attached I’m routing the names in the braces, so they always know who worked on it. I’m a storyteller, so I’ll give you a set-up and a punch line one of the kids played on me. Me: How you think we should paint this, buddy? Kid: It d...
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