Day Seven: Finishing The Old, Starting The New (Aiden)

 Day Seven: Finishing The Old, Starting The New

    With all the pieces of my bedside table fully prepared and ready to be glued, I finally got to start my second project. I came in the morning and got right to work gluing up the pieces of my bedside table, starting with the top. I had a few changes to make to the sides and bottom of the top part before I glued them on, but I had plenty of time to make those while the top was drying. We had a small clamp shortage around the time I finally got to glue up the sides of my bedside table, because Nate was also gluing his dog-house up, but eventually I got to get everything but the bottom of the top part glued and drying before lunch.

My wood drying after being glued up

     Once we got back from a surprisingly long lunch, I got right to work gluing on the bottom of the top part, and with that finished in around a half hour, I was done with the bedside table until the next day. Faced with a few hours of free time, I started the project I had originally planned to do first: my epoxy lamp. I measured out the sixteen 8-inch pieces I would need and the other sixteen 4-inch pieces I would need out of my remaining wood and went through the process of jointing, planing, and cutting each piece. Shortly after cutting everything I realized that I didn't fully account for the thickness of the saw-blade taking off three-quarters of an inch from my wood when I made my cuts, but I managed to make up for that by making the middle hollow. In the end I'm glad I did this, because it will allow me to fit the LEDs into my build much more easily. With the wood all cut up, I glued most of it together using a faster-drying glue then the one I used on my bedside table, and that ended the day.


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