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Being unemployed hasn't helped my stress level much, but it's starting to have an effect on the various projects around here: I've got three four window sashes glued up.  nine eight more to go. I glued up two remaining cabinet doors for the kitchen Also the door of the island garbage pull-out Cut, assembled and glued ...

A quick update about this topic.  The morning after my previous post on the subject, a man from U.P.S Store HQ contacted me.  He had read my post (is he a Houseblogger?  Is it his job to mine the internet for words like ''U.P.S.'' and ''destroyed''?)  and said he wanted to investigate our claim further.  He passed us off ...

01/18/2008 Update:  I have an update to this post, which I've placed at the end. 01/23/2008 Update:  I've made a second post about this, here. Once upon a time, when I was 3 or 4, my dad made me a workbench.  People are always asking me how I learned to build all the stuff that I do, and I can only attribute my skill to that ...

Nick's got all the pieces cut for the rest of the first floor windows and has done a dry fit. This week he will order the glass and after that comes, he will begin assembling them. I've been thinking about the backsplash in the kitchen and how high I want it to go on the wall next to the stove and in the baking center. I can decide, so we're ...

Or... ''You can never own too many clamps.''   Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left.  There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them through the planer, and then cut them to size. He then started milling all the joints and ...

We built a picnic-style table for Atticus. Nick came up with the design and he let me do the cutting and most of the work.  I'd like to think of myself as an apprentice- hoping to learn some of the woodworking skills that Nick has. I've got the sanding and finishing techniques down pat, but I'd love to start building some stuff. We used some ...