new circular saw!

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ A red Milwaukee circular saw, sitting on a table along with a steel ruler, a green pen, & random boards. ]

Innit purty?

Also means I can DO things, so Wednesday I went outside & Did things.

First I hadda mark the circular saw as mine, though. I tried putting my SCA badge on my first couple Milwaukee tools, but it’s too complicated for such small spaces, so I designed this mark, which I can do with a sharpie.

[ Drawn on the handle of the circular saw is a circle with a cross in it, with three lines on each side that look like whiskers. ]

Witness my highly technological recordkeeping technique! (It’s since been rained on.)

[ A hunk of 2×4 with two numbers written on it in green ink. Also a rusty metal ruler and a green pen. ]

Usually I do my sanding sitting down, but my chair still had snow on it, so I hadda work at the sawhorses.

[ A pair of sawhorses, with two lengths of board on top. Sitting on them is a cordless drill with a flap wheel attached. ]

Standing & working in front of me hurts after not too long — my spine is sure a Thing — so I didn’t get a LOT done, but there was progress! & then Thursday I got more done. It’s nice to FINALLY have enough time — & brain & energy — to be working on Tyrava again. There’s just been WAY TOO MUCH.

But check this out — I finally finished up this wall section next to the side door! That means this side is halfway done!

[ A fairly narrow section of Tyrava’s inside wall, which is now covered in reclaimed wood all the way to the top. ]

… & then I ran out of boards, so that was ANOTHER trip, but more about that later.

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Comments

[kellan_the_tabby]

SAME, also do note that I HAVE NO CELL SERVICE *flailing*

that said sometime this summer I will likely have roommates again, or at least, that's what we're PLANNING

[thewayne]

Just be very careful and practice on scrap. And since you scavenge a lot of your lumber, be sure to inspect it for nails before you use it, I expect you’re doing that already. I have an experiment I should conduct and if it’s successful, I might send some stuff up to you as a nail detector…. It might take a week or three to do this….

[kellan_the_tabby]

I do look -- & it helps that most of it's worn enough that nails leave rust marks -- but I would SO VERY not turn down a way to double check. My circular saw _has_ gone right through nails (also a heavy duty door hinge, OOPS) but it's not SUPPOSED to. o.0