This is what happens when you always do everything yourself.
My wife decided we needed a big bookcase for our living room. Tall, anyway. She wanted it to be over 8 ft tall, maybe as tall as 10 ft (the wall it will go on is 20ft high), but only three ft. wide. And it had to match our other furniture in the room, which is somewhat challenging. She picked out some styles that she liked in furniture stores but of course nobody made one of these dimensions, not even close. Everything that was 3 ft wide was under 7 ft tall, and there was absolutely nothing over 8 ft.
So my GS is sitting out on the street under a cover getting rained on while my garage is doing duty as a woodworking shop since last weekend. We should get the thing assembled completely and glue drying by the end of Saturday, and hopefully I can get the finish on it and drying before I have a 16-hour-a-day work event all week starting Tuesday.
Meanwhile my GS project, which is right now stuck at tire swapping, is stalled. To get the adv-conversion finished will require swapping the tires, crafting a final mounting bracket for the rear brake reservoir, painting the one steel footpeg bracket and crafting some kind of shim for the rear brake pivot. The big job is the tires and I really, really don't want to do it, so I delay and put it off and hope someone will show up and volunteer to help me. Not likely to happen, but when another project came up, I jumped on it. But I do have a new set of Shinko 705s waiting to go on.
Sounds like you'd be better off if somebody came by and volunteered to build the bookcase! Not likely to happen either I suppose. :cry:
Best of luck with both projects!
Believe me, I'm a lot better at furniture building than I am at motorcycle tire changing. This is something I've done a lot of. It just consumes lots of space while it's happening, especially for a bookcase this size.
I am realizing that for a man of my interests, hobbies, and station in life, I really need a full on offsite workshop. I need to not be doing all of this in my own garage. I need to just move everything that is currently consuming my garage into a more appropriate industrial type space and just leave a small number of tools at the house, and then I can use the garage for what it was meant for, parking my motorcycles, bicycles, and at least one car, and leave in-progress projects at some other place.
There's are a couple of these industrial type parks around here. A 1000sqft shop space would be perfect and could be only blocks from my house.
Show the end results if you wish.
Aaron
it's almost done. I'll take a picture when it's finished. turned out pretty dang good.
Here it is... and man these pictures don't show the scale very well. It's 122.5" tall. Ten feet, 2.5 inches. It's massive.
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I was all ready to :dunno_black: where pics! but man that is spankin! Nice!!!
Man, you better believe that thing looks awesome! You're adjusting carbs, building furniture, doing it all. I want you on my zombie apocalypse team! Lol :thumb:
Thanks guys. I'm just glad it's done so I can get to changing tires.