Getting Somewhere!

Fuck yeah!
I bought a router from my favorite pawn shop (Valley Jewlery and Loan in Sun Valley, rad place, go visit) and gaffled a channel cutter from Lowe’s since I’m a goddamned hardcore career criminal yo, I’m the baddest of the bad, the lowest of the low… No that’s wrong, I paid for it on my damn debit card and you know full well that I ain’t as hard as I make out on the internet.

Anyway, I had to modify the router to work, used a bunch of flat washers as spacers. Unfortunately the channel it cuts is way too wide and I’ll need to scam a bench grinder (yay pawn shops!) so as to flatten out the “spades” at the end of the bit. Luckily for me they’re made of carbide and wore the teeth right off of my brand-new file! A W E S O M E ~

Anyhow:

Here you can see how hard I struggled with that fucking router. Even though the channel is wider than some vaginas I’ve been in, the little strip of t-molding (by the way my shipment from t-molding.com came in yesterday, awesome~) remains centered. I’m going to have to go through a whole fucking tube of wood putty though to keep it seated.

Here we are with the cab upright and the main structural elements installed. The bottom was the hardest part. Tomorrow I’ll go into Depot and score some 12″ pre-cut planks so as to save me some time on cutting the horizontal panels. Also I need to practice mitre cutting, hoopity hoo. I think I might just buy a damned router bit for that.

Lessons Learned:

- Man quit being cheap on tools and stuff, buy the damned good plunge router instead of the cheapass laminate router you fucking tool.

- You should have bought the cut disc tool from t-molding.com when you ordered, it’s not like you ain’t got a bundle in your paypal account or anything instead of burning up more money on modifying off-the-shelf bits.

- Dude cut the channel for the t-molding after you create the screw-holes for the structural parts, notice how the screws just crush the channel?

- Yeah that’s because the bit was cutting too deep, throwing a few fender washers onto the tool spindle should help out with that.

- Fuck yeah.

- Also buy more screws, the only reason you stopped was because you were out.

- Also quit talking in the second person, Jesus fucking Christ.

More on this fantastic project as events warrant.