Had a pint with a friend today, and I am filled with a renewed sense of spirit. This is someone who creates... who believes there is beauty in so many things... Who tries to truly live life and not just coast through.
This person reminded me that your life is what you make it - no reason you can't pursue the things that matter to you, and no reason you have to accept that the world is what it is - maybe you're the one who is meant to make it just a little bit better. What is life without a bit of passion; a bit of striving...
Lucky to know that kind of person. Perhaps someday I'll be lucky enough to inspire someone else in the same way.
- Scuba Steve
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sydney!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Crib - *this* close...
So I've managed to spend a few hours in the shop this weekend... The light at the end of this project is getting pretty bright!
First I did some more gluing and clamping... You think that the number of clamps you own is embarrassingly high, but then you glue up the top rail of a bed and find you coulda used 3 or 4 more...

Anyway, got that glued up, and then started finishing up the sides... Got them 100% ready to polyurethane... All sanded down and everything (like 2 hours of hand sanding, because of all those spindles).
So even though I'm gonna have to disassemble it to seal it up, (and even though the headboard isn't done yet) I wanted to see what it was gonna look like, so I went ahead and assembled it... I like!


- Scuba Steve
First I did some more gluing and clamping... You think that the number of clamps you own is embarrassingly high, but then you glue up the top rail of a bed and find you coulda used 3 or 4 more...
Anyway, got that glued up, and then started finishing up the sides... Got them 100% ready to polyurethane... All sanded down and everything (like 2 hours of hand sanding, because of all those spindles).
So even though I'm gonna have to disassemble it to seal it up, (and even though the headboard isn't done yet) I wanted to see what it was gonna look like, so I went ahead and assembled it... I like!
- Scuba Steve
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Cabinet soft-close thingies!
OK, so of all the kitchen improvement we made these soft closer things give by far the most bang for the buck.
See that little extra thing in the top corner?

Only one self-drilling screw to install... Takes less than a minute... Costs just over $5 each... And now when you "slam" a cabinet door shut, it softly catches it about 2 inches out and eases it silently closed.
Fan-freaking-tactic!

Something like $120 to do this to the whole kitchen and bar... Totally worth it.
- Scuba Steve
See that little extra thing in the top corner?
Only one self-drilling screw to install... Takes less than a minute... Costs just over $5 each... And now when you "slam" a cabinet door shut, it softly catches it about 2 inches out and eases it silently closed.
Fan-freaking-tactic!
Something like $120 to do this to the whole kitchen and bar... Totally worth it.
- Scuba Steve
Location:Cricketfield Ln,Cary,United States
Sunday, August 22, 2010
So close to gluing up...
Spent a few hours out there today... Getting the rest of the headboard ready to go... If I had a few dowels I would have this piece glued up already, but such is life... After some sanding I'll get this one glued up and then just 3 more glue-ups to go and then staining and assembly!

- Scuba Steve
- Scuba Steve
Location:Cricketfield Ln,Cary,United States
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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