Christopher Schwartz Day at Highland Hardware

Some days we just play. My son and I saw Chris at HHW Saturday. Fun day. We decided to each build the Dutch Toolbox he had on display.
I regret not taking more pictures of the box. Here is a link to his blog.

Honey Dos

My sweet wife needed some help this week so with the help of our son I obliged.

The Second Shop Addition

January 21st 2013 We started breaking ground for our second addition.

Water Damage

This past weekend I began a new project, all be it one I do not look forward to doing but needs done anyway.

The roof over my back porch has been collecting water where the gutter man placed a guard over the gutter to protect the gutter from filling with leaves. Instead it collected water which ran down and rotted all the wood work.

Now what needs to be done is replace wood that should never have rotted. I guess it is partly my fault. I should have realized sooner the problem and just removed the gutter. Hind sight is twenty twenty.

I guess this will be a warm up to adding the new addition to the workshop. Yes, this is my spring project. I think I have worked out the design and now I am close to breaking ground.

Mission accomplished

Six coats of oil and all that is left to do is installing the hardware.
More pictures to come.

Staining Day

Hardware On, Finally

Saturday I determined to install the half lock. My first. So I carefully drew out the lines to cut to, then proceeded to cut to the wrong side. Smart.