Tired of getting wood?
Don't worry. It will end soon.
And I am kind of sad about it, because the only reason I am going to have to stop making things, is that I am out of wood. Of course, I can always buy a little more, but it has been fun to make things out of the leftovers and offcuts. After clearing most of the garage today, I then decided to make a table/ stool/ shelf unit that can sit next to the grill to hold a tray or two, or a person or two, and house a speaker on an inside hidden shelf, or other random things that might be needed, but can be hidden away.
It won't sit where it currently is, but it is very portable anyway. We are still waiting on the electrician (who is on holiday with his kids) to hook up the lights and put in a 4-socket outlet, which is where I will pull the power for the speaker and my wife for Christmas lights.
Priorities.
I am getting better at making 45° corners, but it is difficult using terrace boards (as they have a bow) and with offcuts, as they are the crappy ends that had to be cut off anyway. There were a few nicer pieces in the mix, but this box is about 85 cm wide, which is the most I could make it because I only had two pieces of wood slightly more than that. The rest were under 50 cm, so it is about 45 cm high. I had no room for cutting errors, as I have run out of wood.
Aside from the 4 pieces of bar I have to finish the privacy screen.
We are still waiting on the pilar wood that will run across the top of the privacy screen to ensure that it is solid and will hopefully barely move. It is pretty solid already, but to last many years, I want to be sure. And since I suspect that people (including myself) will lean on it often enough, I want it to feel solid also. I like that the deck (so far) doesn't bend and move like some of the patios I have been on, so it feels like a proper floor. I am sure there will be some give in the future, but for now, there is a satisfaction of walking on it and it not moving.
And while my wood supply has come to an end, so to have the summer holidays with only one day left before Smallsteps heads to her new school, and I have to continue on looking for a "proper" job, because my own business isn't going to bring in enough at this point, as the economy is terrible here, and the job market is even worse.
The panic will set in at some point.
Perhaps I can sell poorly made furniture.
Taraz
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