Work Weekend at Bent Tree
June 18, 1981
| Len placing molding under the stair after the stippling is completed on the ceiling of the basement room. |
Len tackles the staining and finishing of the doors.
Len sanding a closet door after staining and the first coat of clear finish. Spraying may go quickly, but sanding these slatted doors is a lot of hand work. | |
| Len has gone into production with the finishing of the closet doors and is staging the finishing. |
Len went into production with the staining and finishing of the doors, and knocked out most of the doors in the house in a couple of hardworking weekends. | |
| Spraying a finish clearcoat on one of the doors. |
Rod works on the construction of a refreshment bar for the basement recreation room.
Assembling the frame of the basement bar. The longer section of the faceplate is attached, and I am framing for the shorter faceplate for the front of the sink portion. | |
| To make the stainable end for the bar, I glued two 1x12's together to make a solid board. The joiner came in handy for smoothing the edges before gluing. |
Cutting the curve in the bar top with the sabre saw. | |
| I wanted to make the bar shallow so as to minimize the space taken from the area for the ping pong table. But then I had to widen it at the end to accommodate even the tiny bar sink. |
This meant I had to bend the edge laminate around the curve that I had made, so I used the cutout from shaping the bar to make a custom clamp to make sure the laminate sealed well on the curve. | |
| A closer view of the curve in the edge laminate and my custom clamping arrangement. |
Applying the contact cement for gluing the laminate to the top of the bar. | |
| June 19 was Father's Day and Brenda had made Rod a cake to celebrate. |
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