The Shelves’ Posteriors

1/16/2019:

Building Summary: Today I measured, cut, and pre-drilled holes into the boards that will make up the back of the shelving space in wall #4.

Commentary: You may or may not have noticed there has been a change in the labeling of these two sections. Rather than ‘Summary’ and ‘Full description’, it is ‘Building Summary’ and ‘Commentary’. There is a reason for this. I’ve been looking through Jacobhouse logbook entries for the last few days, and I’ve noticed a trend. They are starting to get longer and longer and even longer. I’m not sure if this is due to an increase in productivity or to an increase in detail or perhaps both. More isn’t always a bad thing, but (and there is a but), today – for the first time – I found myself wondering ‘How in the [insert expletive here] am I going to keep describing what I do if I keep performing tasks that increase both in number and complexity?‘.

So, from this point on, both for my sanity for those who read these entries, I am going to attempt and limit my descriptions to highlights of my building adventures and to the internal ‘commentary’ that occurred within my brain whilst engaging in those said adventures.

For example, today’s highlight is that I learned a lot more about how to cut angle boards. Through use of the ‘farmer angle-finding method’, I was able to draw the appropriate lines on the sides of the 2x4s that I was to cut… but then I had to find out what exactly those angles were so I could replicate them without having to use the ‘farmer angle-finder’ for each one. To do this, I finally discovered how to find an angle with a speedsquare. Basically, all one has to do, is place the square’s vertex at the edge of an angle (do it in a way where the thing can actually be pivoted). Then, keeping the pivot in the same location, turn the square up or down depending on what side the flat edge is against. To find the angle’s degree, match the angle with the non-flat edge of the square; the degree is always directly across from the pivot.   

With this knowledge, I found that the degree I was looking for was “37.5”. I set the skillsaw’s guide to that number, and by the end of the morning, I had six boards cut for the rear side of the shelves belonging to wall #4. It took me somewhere upwards of two and a half hours to get those boards cut and pre-drilled, but what with all the learning that occurred in that time, I’d say it was well worth the wait.

Tomorrow, I believe I shall screw those ‘shelven’ posteriors to the wall. That didn’t sound right, did it?