Gawldamn, that camera is gorgeous. You and your family and ancestors and descendants should be proud of you for that level of craftsmanship. Nice.
My "carpentry" skills are way more rudimentary, but I did finally get around to a project last week that has been bugging me for a while; I had lots of wasted space above my drill press and I had a vision of shelves for my various specialty vises; in addition, there was more wasted space (because of earlier poor planning) where I thought I'd like to store my bench grinders and such.... (I've been on this kick lately of trying to store "likes with likes". It has every hallmark of an idea that could maybe lead to obsessive behavior.)
I drew up some crude plans and was about to head to the local lumberyard, but a lucky occurrence guided me to a shelving unit that someone was throwing out. It netted me 6 8' and 4 6' two-bys and some quarter inch hard masonite plus some scraps of various woods including clear hard maple. Pretty good score for free. 1 of the 8 footers had a pretty gnarly twist, but the rest of the wood was straight and clean. Previous owner said it was built in '94 and believe me when I tell you, if this is a representative example, the difference in the quality of dimensional wood from then to now is shocking. Score. Free. Happy day.
So, a few days of light, very slow work has netted me a chance to tetris even more crap into my garage for my family and friends to toss into an ever larger dumpster, but it kept me out of the bars or the gambling dens and gave the neighbors a chance to wonder aloud what in the world goes on over there. I'm very pleased with the way both of these projects have turned out and man, free is a very good price for lumber.
Here's the free shelving unit that I dismantled:
Overhead storage and newly reconstructed motorized abraders storage - with room for future clutter!
