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

[thewayne]

Congrats on the saw! Those things are quite handy, I have one myself. I think the first thing I used it for was to cut a plastic cutting board in half! :-) It wouldn't fit in the dishwasher, the two half-boards are used very heavily.

This is my recent tool acquisition:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-10-in-Compound-Miter-Saw-with-LED-TS1346/306939211

We needed to do a bunch of 45 degree miter cuts, and I absolutely must do some board replacement on our decks, and it wasn't that expensive. I thought I'd bought a battery-powered one, and was ready to take it back, but when I saw how the AC one had a much longer reach and was a lot less expensive, I kept it.

[danabren]

Yay more Home Workings On!