I have been spending some of my extra “unemployed” hours on
learning some woodworking skills (a task that is very foreign to me…which is
why I thought I would give it a try).
Today my very proud Self drilled pilot holes successful only to go too
far with the countersink bit jabbing a horrendous hole into my wood. Phooey. Good
thing it was on the backside of my project and hip hip hooray for wood-putty
(never used it but I know it’s out there).
I applied the wood glue and began screwing in the screws…twist…twist...creak….the boards began to lift apart! Well,
silly me didn’t know until later that such a thing was not an emergency and is really quite normal and only requires me to
(practically) prostrate myself on the two boards while I screw them together to
prevent them from separating. Smile. Later (of course after such exertion I had to
take a break), I attempted to glue and nail another little board to the front of
the project. Well the glue, glued fine but after driving one of the finishing
nails into the wood (and after consulting Dad) I realized I should have driven
pilot holes in for the nails to make them easier to drive in and prevent splitting.
No problem. Somehow even my
pilot hole practice-run in a piece of scrap board didn’t prevent me from encountering
difficultly while working ON my project.
The difficultly was none other than getting the drill bit stuck in the
wood. Smile. With some intervention from Dad we got it out
and I learned that in the future I need to really crank down on the drill chuck
in order to ensure a tight union betwixt drill and bit.
Fortunately nothing else eventful occurred during the
project…unless you call bending three nails in the process of punching the
finishing nails below the surface of the wood an event. I certainly wouldn’t count that, would you?
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