Due to being built in a shop too small to pre-assemble for a proper test fit, this is the first time all eleven components of this 14' long piece actually met to shake hands ... a glove maker would have been proud ...
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should finish up the last bit of trim in the morning, and none too soon ... this puppy 'bout whipped my no longer young ass.
>> I should finish up the last bit of trim in the morning, and none too
Wow, nice! I suspected all of the fuss must have been about that bend. Then I saw the photo of how you clamped it. Oooh, boy!! Some comparison might be made to calf-roping! : )
Looks like a heavyarse bitch, it does. Nicely done.
The first thought in my mind after seeing it in its new native habitat is "She's not going to be able to see her computer screen AT ALL with all that bright sunlight coming in all those windows! But she can see her shiny new desk very well.
Q1: Is it built to break down into smaller pieces for moving to the next house, or did she have you glue it all together in-place?
Q2: Did she ever tell you what the curved shelf underneath was for? Hmm, I no longer see it in the exploded drawing.
Q3: Didja drill the top for routing cabling up through it?
Kudos, Gramps. Yet another job well done.
-- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. --Duke Ellington
>>> I should finish up the last bit of trim in the morning, and none too
Thank you!
She uses a laptop, and it is the same location of her old desk ... then again, that's _her_ problem. I just build the damn things. :)
That is basically why this "little project" whipped my ass ... it would have been an easy "built-in", but it had to be shop built in order to satisfy the architect's specs of being "easily movable "components" that would fit through a standard, 36" entry door".
One of the few changes that resulted in leaving something out. Though that still may change (cut it out just in case, but did not bring it up).
Will do that tomorrow ... she wanted to wait until she got all her "stuff" where she wanted it, and I concur. This is a woman Steve Jobs had nothing on when it comes to knowing what she wants, yet all woman when it comes to 'change of mind'.
>>>>>>> I should finish up the last bit of trim in the morning, and none too
Actually, I can (still) pickup carry every one of the pieces by myself, and did, too damn many times.
Not a single bit of "caulk", Bubba ... that there was construction adhesive for the middle of the top and bottom trim on the curved section!
Since there is a 1/8" kerf every 3/8" on the interior part of the plywood lamination, there is little or nothing to hold a finish nail in that area, thus the need for an adhesive of some sort.
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Is it safer to hide behind a particle board desk or a solid wood one during a gunfight? (It's safer not to be there.) The particle board would disintegrate in chunks while the solid wood would tend to splinter.
Heavier the better ... Open up a 22", full extension file drawer, chock full of files, (or two by accident) and there better be sufficient counterweight to make tipping an impossibility.
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