The day is upon us. Valentine’s Day, that is. Nothing much different about this day, except both my kids thought it was a school free holiday. Of which I had to disabuse them of that belief. No my sweet summer children, next Monday is the holiday. Today is just a Tueaday. A school filled Tuesday at that. Not to say I don’t have goodies for them once they come home. As I do have some small items for them to have, and a tiny bit of candy. I didn’t go as extravagant as in years previous. I went overboard at Christmas, and needed to scale back a bit. Can’t keep that pace going all year long, oh my! But I did but some small more thoughtful gifts for my kids, and spouse, several weeks ago, in fact.
So it turns out we had some sunshine yesterday, so in between working, I managed to prepare some elements of the Urn I need to build. Red Oak and plywood to the rescue. Long way to go yet, but progress was made. Also, I got a second full gloss coat over top of my panel lining details on the VF-1. So a touch more progress made there too. Small steps forward. About as much as I could ask for at this point. I even got some good ideas down on paper for a Logo job I’m doing that comes due at the tail end of March. Add in the sunshine, and slightly warmer temperatures and it was a pretty great day yesterday. I’ll take it!
I do need to figure out how to salvage my mitred cuts for the Urn base. Three corners meet perfectly, and one is off by almost an 1/8th inch, even though each pair of parallel sides are equal size. I hope there wasn’t a bunch of released tension once I made some cuts that has caused some warping this early on in the build process. That’s going to be really difficult to work around if an hour in and things are twisting, buckling and warping every which way. Wood filler and clamps abound! I’d prefer it not look like ass when completed. Sort of a big deal to have a decent finished product.
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