Working on a sign for my friend Russell Gale. He is moving into a fancy new shop, and it seemed like he would probably need a fancy new sign. You can check out some of his awesome work here: http://www.russellgale.com
Birches
…I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
-Robert Frost
Awesome day at the shop. Got most of the flooring put in. Hopefully we can finish the floor tomorrow and start working on wiring up the place…
Got all the parts marked out for the bridge table. Next step is sawing them out. Tomorrow’s the big day…
Rats. My super-fancy tray-sliding mechanism isn’t going to fly. The idea (at least on paper) was that the tray could pull out from the drawer box, slide laterally to the right about five inches, then push back and lock into place. The tray itself would slide on brass bushings fit into a pair of tracks cut into the bottom if the drawer box.
The problem is not that it doesn’t slide- technically, it does- but rather the feel of it is all wrong. In short, it is clunky, and the table this mechanism is meant for just needs something more elegant. I had suspected this would be the case, but I think sometimes you have to see things all the way through, even if you are pretty sure they are going to fail.
Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
