16th May 2023
One day I will finish the kitchen remodel, I’m looking forward to that. The disruption is a little depressing, I know it annoys Kelli who cooks every day that the pans are not where she wants them, the dining table is a storage area that is constantly full of crap, and the thought of eating there is still a future goal.
We did manage to paint the last cabinet that still needs to be installed, so the snails pace continues.
The biggest frustration of the day was making new legs for the latest dresser we collected a few days ago.
Once we got it home we discovered that plywood panels had been nailed to the sides in an attempt to give a more contemporary look. Some crazy legs had been added, and when we removed them the extent of the alteration was revealed. The original legs had been cut off very badly, the sides had also been shortened but the cut was not straight or square.
My first job was to improve the cuts, and then find timber to make new legs.
I intended to make two leg frames, that would be attached to the base of the dresser.
I thought that using dowels would be the best solution, but dowels don’t like me much. I have several dowel jugs, and when all the wood sections are identical they work fine, but when they are not it never works well for me. Worst are the pointed bits that supposed to mark where the holes need to be, but they never work. No matter how careful I am I can never get them to be perfectly lined up, and it drives me mad. I can’t believe how long it took to make two leg frames, I lost count how many dowels I used. Eventually I did get them glued up, but what a pain in the arse it was. It would have been quicker to use mortise and tenons.
Another Lifetime to go 