Hoo HWAH! Those fists were fast as lightning!
Picked this guy up at the annual giant yard sale Saturday at the Kentville Arena, in amongst a pile of the standard yard sale fare of old china and mismatched plates. Presented next to about half a 100-spindle of DVDs. Who would sell this!? Seriously! Though I don’t have anyplace to put it, I knew I had to have it.
I considered getting an original Steve Austin figurine. No, not the wrestler, the $6 Million Man, from the 1970s. It was in relatively bad repair though, having been obviously played with outside, then forgotten, exposing the plastic to the elements. Also noticed a well-used NES, though they were asking $50 for the console alone, one controller and no games. Forget that.
Jodi got two bookends that I believe are supposed to represent water wheels but seem to resemble some sort of medieval torture device, and a copper-plated sugar dish to replace our horridly kitschy flower-covered ceramic one. We’re getting lots of stuff for ornamentation — we need to get a move on building that wall unit and getting some shelves for the bedroom. It’s a shame my original plans have to be scrapped and redone, as I didn’t realize the boards at most of the lumber places around here only sell wood at 3/4 inch thick. Oh well. I’m in no huge rush for it to be completed, though it would be nice to get it started sometime soon. It’ll also be great practice, I think, for when I finally get around to building my arcade machine.
And in an uncanny moment of confluence, the next MST3k episode begins, and it features “The Last Chase” starring Lee Majors.
I’m thinking maybe the arcade machine should be practice for the wall unit instead? lol
I really do understand your concerns, with the wall unit being much more prominent, but a bunch of straight lines seems a lot easier to pull off than a lot of small boards with intricate cuts. I think I can do the wall unit with minimal issues once the plans are all put together. The parts I’m not sure about are specifically making the doors of the bottom cabinets, and notching the boards for the more important shelves like the one the TV will sit on. Everything else — clamping together the wood, staining it, putting on the trim to make it pretty, even putting lights for the top shelves, all seems so straightforward as to be simply a matter of having the proper tools (e.g. table saw, maybe a drill press) to follow the plans exactly.