The days keep ticking on by and I am still DoorDashing. It is not enough to make it by, and we have cut all luxuries to reduce the expenses and try to align the outflows to the inflow of our budget. Meanwhile, I have the photography site up and am looking to book clients and put my skills to work behind the camera. Funny enough, I have a video playing right now, and the author is saying one of the harsh truths he wish he would have learned earlier in his career is that you have to push, and you have to slog to sell your work, and that you will not be just discovered by people coming out of the woodwork. I need to figure out the time and efforts to put myself into that.
Meanwhile, I have been putting the evening hours into my table project. I am feeling pretty good about it. I am happy with how it is coming along. I have the top done and am working on the rails right now. The legs are started, but the edges of the legs are parallel, and will not taper till I have completely decided on the rails and their depth under the top. I have come to nine inches. At the moment, I am thinking I will have two large, deep drawers on the outsides, and two small, narrow, shallow, stacked drawers in the middle. I may put dividers in the larger drawers, but we will see.
The whole table will be around 29 inches tall or so. I measured off my desk upstairs. I also was constraied by the wood I had for the legs. I made some 2 inch sort of posts that bent after they were cut and left to dry. So I have got them down to 1 1/4 inch and as long as I could cut out of them, accounting for the extra that could be got where the legs will taper. I had originally hoped to use the full length of these legs to build a pie safe, but that did not work out, so I looked about to find another project, and Missus came up with this table idea.
I have a bead around the skirt of the table at the moment, and I am pratty happy with that as a decorative accent and a way of seftening the bottom edge. I have a router bit for the electric router that could do this, but I have used it before and have never been quite happy with the results. It really follows the wood, and has that choppy look of repetative strikes of the blade as routers do. So I have used the hand scratcher. And that is quite suitable for the project because the whole thing is meant to be done almost entirely without power tools. I did cut those legs down to size with the bandsaw, then that power planer, but they will be run through hand planes for the final finish.
All three skirts are done now as far as shaping and finishing. I need to cut their tenons, but that won’t happen till I get the mortises into the legs, which comes very soon, so I will be planing their finish next, cut the mortises, and then taper them. Somewhere in this I need to cut the rails for the front where the drawers will be. The bottom will require a bead cut into it. They can be cut along with the skirts a little longer than required, then the tenongs cut from that. The top rail needs to be dovetailed tight to give it strength against pulling apart. The bottom will be drawbore tennoned.
If you know the talk, you know what I am talking about. If not, then I am sorry to have confused you. I am journalling for my records.
Okay, today is Friday. The kids are off school, and I am working today in town. I have three days of hard earning to do, and I need to earn like crazy! Prefer to get more than $150 a day these next few days. So, I have goals. They are painful, but they will keep me busy and in turn, tired. I carry on working through Monday as it is the start of the new earning week, and I take Tuesdays off to skip the low earning day of the week. That’s when the woodwork makes a bit of progress.