Power tool jigs

I've been distracted from the PDR for a couple of days because I have to make some desks and shelves for the kids rooms before the holidays finish.

The shelves are basically thin boxes made from 42 x 18 finger jointed pine glued both sides to 6mm ply. This is overkill for the short shelves but I have some that need to be 1900 long and the thickness should stop them from sagging. They'll be mounted into a recess in the room and fixed to the wall on three sides.

For cutting the ply I've made a fence for my circular saw which I clamp across the cut line. I use an 9 1/4 inch blade with 80 teeth set to cut just below the lower ply and it seems to cut without breakout.

For docking timber to a consistant size I've built another jig. I clamp the wood to the back fence and screw in a stop to make sure the size is consistent.

 

They're nifty jigs that do the job but I'm sure there are better ways of doing it.

Boat Destruction

Finally got the first day of boat work done in the new shed.

Left at 5:00 am on my faithful GS500 from Perth and passed a fatal accident at Mandurah (some kids drag racing and lost control - the girl in the back seat wasn't wearing a seat belt and was thrown through the window and died - what a waste). When I finally got to Busselton just before 8:00 I came upon a motorbike accident. A lady came out of Fairway Drv straight into the path of the guy on the bike - he didn't have a chance to stop. I found out later from my mate at the hospital that he broke his neck and was flown out to Perth by the RFDS.

It really freaks you out seeing a bike accident - especially ehen you're riding one yourself!

I was on the scene before the ambulance and police and so stopped to direct traffic. When the police turned up they asked me to keep directing traffic so I was there for an hour - the Busselton bypass was closed to eastbound traffic.

Anyway after all of that drama I finally made it to the folk's place.

Dad and I got stuck into cleaning up the shed and decided to take this bench dad had made for this guy out to his farm to give us more room. We got back and after having lunch went out and cut two honking great holes in the deck for the forehatch and the companion way sliding hatch.

And that was it for the day. More a day of boat destruction than construction.

Oh well.

Crook

My most excellent Mum, who with Dad had been looking after the kids on the school holidays, was crook last week. I went down south to pick the kids up a day early to give her a break and perhaps get a bit of work done on the boat. Sadly when I got there Dad was crook too! So the weekend was a write off boat wise but I had a mint time with the kids.

Oh well. There's always next weekend.

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