Day 1629 Staple position

26th January 2022

It was an embarrassing moment for Kelli when the person that was interested in the small buffet that we sold to somebody else turned up. She explained that not hearing anything from them led her to believe they were not interested, we were not even informed that he would turn up today.

He didn’t have a fit, so we showed him other things were were working on.

It was one of those times when we should have informed them as soon as it was sold, however it was done, and the lady picked it up earlier.

We lifted the mid century tall dresser from the truck and struggled into the garage. It has a lots of solid oak pieces on it making it heavy.

I laid out all the drawer pieces on the bench. One drawer front had some water damage, this will dictate how we will treat the finishing of all the fronts.

Earlier I moved the free desk that we hid away, out to strip down.

During our production meeting last night Kelli had the brilliant idea to use the desk top to make a new top for a dresser that had a grotty laminate surface. The pedestal would make a small dresser or side table.

As I started the disassembly, the full extent of the quality of the desk became clear. Every part was solid oak, not one part of particleboard was in it. Removing the screws from the pedestal was a bugger, it was almost that the screws were not undoable. What should have taken ten minutes took more than an hour. In a lot of cases I had to drill the heads off the screws, but once off I was left with lots of oak timber that I can reuse.

Then I went shopping to Lowes in the afternoon. I needed some timber quadrant to trim some cabinet doors, but I also had a hankering to purchase a nail gun, but I didn’t want a pneumatic system because I didn’t have a compressor and didn’t really want one.

My plan was to buy a cordless model which they had at Lowes.

I found the model that was advertised, but the battery and charger were sold separately (good one Craftsman). As I procrastinated, looking for the nails, they all looked so thick. Ideally I wanted small gauge nails for the trims I generally attach, if I was fixing siding, or making up boxes the thicker nails would be fine. The long and short of it was I put all of it back on the shelf and left without it.

To compensate for that I went across the road to Harbour Freight and bought a bench mounted band saw, this has been a tool I have wanted for a while, now I have to make some space for it.