On 2020-10-05 11:11 a.m., Scott Garrison wrote:
> So I finally "completed" completed my saw till over the weekend. Many years
> ago I made the till portion capable of holding my saws, but I am renowned
> for getting a job to 80% completion and just moving on. My wife claims it
> to be an Aries trait...I don't know but I do struggle with it so I made a
> goal during this Covid thing to attempt getting a number of my
> semi-completed jobs all the way through. So I was able to add the dividers
> and drawer units to the bottom (formerly a single open shelf) and get
> everything painted up. The wood is southern yellow pine deadfall from my
> yard that I cut years ago with a chainsaw mill and the drawer fronts are an
> old red oak tabletop that I hung onto as scrap for projects. The knobs,
> Bradford pear that also came from my yard. When the drawer fronts were done
> I saw how important it is to match grain - as if I wasn't already aware of
> that. But my drawer fronts looked so much like S#$t as the grain was all
> over the place that I was left with no choice but to add a few coats of
> black milk paint to go with the green milk paint (my shop colors). The
> black was coated with BLO whereas the green was shellacked with some old
> amber shellac just shy of spoiling. I wanted to "age" the green a bit - I
> like the look. For the most part this was all done galootish and I left
> many of the plane marks. In fact I didn't even attempt to smooth plane the
> interior panels.
>
> But I can safely say it is good to complete a project 100% - there is no
> little brain "chad" irritating you if you will. Pics here -
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/zUYxP131XjbDo2476
>
> Scott Garrison
> Duluth GA

Very nice Scott, but you know it's not really complete until the drawers 
are completely filled!

Don

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anarchist

  - One who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist.
  - One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in
particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

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action, thought or behavior is morally right or morally wrong.