Monday, September 19, 2011

Day 15 - Shelving done...

Or at least cut out. Bought another sheet of inch and an eighth plywood tonight, a Sureform, a couple more clamps, a new plywood blade for the Skilsaw, a trick little protractor for setting those odd angles and a nice straight edge that's longer than eight feet.

Got back to the shed and promptly started making more sawdust. Set the saw to the 21 degrees and went at it. Cut the four curved shelf pieces first, then grabbed the new piece of plywood and ripped out the straight portions of the shelves using the new straight edge. Beautiful cuts! Might be the only straight thing on the whole boat by the time I'm done. Then grabbed the saber saw and cut the inside curves on the shelves. Not so nice. It'll work, but they're going to take some cleanup work. Cut the 12" angles on the ends for joining the pieces together and it was time to clean up and go home.

I've got a new problem though. All this cutting is leaving a huge amount of fine sawdust in the air that's getting in everything. I think I need to go looking for a very fine filter and a box fan. Might be able to McGyver something together. We'll see.

3.5 Hours