I caught lightning! Well, I caught it on camera. Pause at the 53-second mark to see it. I usually record time lapses of the sky in wide-angle on my GoPro. I wanted to record the audio of the thunder this time, so I used my camcorder instead. I just happened to zoom in on a section of sky to catch lightning zipping by.
After a 7-hour delay to install a water heater, sawdust is finally created! This lumber is wet and sticky. Wet enough that I ran the SawStop in bypass mode. As I was cutting, a puddle of water formed and tracked in front of the blade on a few of the cuts.
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Good morning thunderstorm. It's raining again. Yay. Yay rain. But on a good note, I had a 15
minute shower last night with full water pressure and I didn't run out of hot water. It's just like
it was like a real shower. You know what I'm saying? It was
I went to bed with a smile on my face.
Anyway, it's raining again. Water heater works. Now it's time for me to work.
All of this is leftover stuff that I'll pull from to make the bottom sections and over here
I've got my two long sides and my two short sides. Now all of this stuff is soaking wet.
I had to put the bypass mode on the saw stop and as the blade was running through here,
as the blade was smashing down, I could see like a puddle of water
tracking right with the blade, right in front of the blade as I was making the cut.
So this stuff is still soaking wet. I'm going to assemble it so all the expansion and contraction
will be in the height direction, right? All four sides like this and the plan is right now
to hand cut dovetail all the joints and that's still up for debate because I don't know if I
have the patience for that right now, but I'd like to try it. I haven't done hand cut dovetails and
probably two years now, so we'll see how that goes.
So the thing is I'm not sure if I want to do the dovetails on the long boards or the tails
on the short boards, the short sides. I don't know. I'm not entirely sure, but
I'm going to break for some lunch and cook some pork chops.
I forgot to mention that the jointer calibration is way off. Like I said in my shop tour video,
oh, if you haven't seen the shop tour video, well, you guys kind of know how the shop is, but
the intro, a four minute intro covered everything that we've done,
most of what we've done on the property. So go to my woodworking channel, which is
just search Jay Bates on YouTube, Jay's Custom Creations, you'll find that channel.
But in that shop tour video, I mentioned that if it's not broke, don't fix it. So I don't
want to chase something that may not be there. So I wanted to use the jointer first
and then figure out, does it need to be calibrated? Well, I knocked it over on its
side. So I thought, sure, it should need to be calibrated, but yeah, it big time needs to be
calibrated. Both tables feel like they're dropping at the end, which results in a smiley face on the
bottom side of the board when you're jointing on edge versus nice and flat. So big time,
big time calibration is necessary.
