While Cheryl is counting her blessings, I'm counting projects. I need to get some pictures up, so look on Picasa soon for those. The 4'x8' workbench is complete: framed with 2x6s and topped with 2 sheets of 3/4" MDF (yes, a 1.5" thick top) that are drilled, countersunk and screwed to the frame with 3" deckmates--this table is SOLID. It has been a huge blessing (hey, there's one, I'll count that!) on the projects I've been undertaking. To have a large, flat, solid work surface is impossible to overstate.
I am well into building the built-in cabinet in the bathroom. Right now, the face frame is about complete and ready for shelves, two doors and two drawers. To go any further I "need" a router table, so I've begun installing that into the workbench. Tonight I'll install electric onto the perimeter of the bench (no more unplugging and replugging every tool, every tool change!). Then I'll rout the recess for the router plate, make a fence and install the t-tracks and miter-track.
I won't be able to finish the cabinet before we install the tile and heating mats since the tile will run under the footprint of the cabinet, so for now I am leaving the bottom 18" or so open. I can still do the rest, and just build and install the two bottom drawers after the floor.
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