Stuart Herring

I was just watching a YouTube video and the presenter said that this was the sixth decade he'd lived in. An d I thought "hmm, he doesn't really look like he's in his 50s, but I guess he could be" But then he... facebook.com/774567234/post…

On the plus side, any old cheap scotch can be an Islay Single Malt now...

The perfect crime!

Starting to get a sense of what I'm actually trying to achieve.

Finally some real progress. Both backs completed. Now I just have to figure out what to do next.

Coming together

Today was about cauls and stickers... Cauls to keep things flat while gluing panels, and stickers to ensure things stay flat in storage.

That's my dust collection problem mostly sorted...

The covers band I'm in is hosting a charity gig next Saturday - come along and enjoy the music and some excellent pizza. ticketebo.com.au/tamar-sloan/pr…

Pretty happy with that. Blade change took about 15 minutes, and other than having to mess with the tracking a bit wasn't too much of a pain. The smaller blade had no trouble at all with some fairly tight curves.

Success!

Edge jointing long boards on the tablesaw with the help of a 2m steel tube...

Ok, so it's definitely not finished yet, but I think I can declare it to be Fully Operational.

So this took way too long for what could be a high school woodworking project. And there's heaps of things wrong with it. But I learnt stuff, and it does the job.

Newest acquisition.

And Wake Up Dead is one of the most metal opening tracks for an album (although Queen of the Ryche is also a contender)

Call of Ktulu is probably one of the greatest Metal instrumentals of all time.

So the game was fine, but we got saturated getting from the busnto the car. Two twenty metre uncovered sections at a sprint was enough.

And there's the thunderstorm and it's pouring down. The extra $50 is feeling pretty good right now.