t'was the night before xmas eve......

My wife left this morning with Mandy and Seth to go to New York to see her parents for the holidays. She'll be coming back tomorrow(today when you read this). I would have gone too but I put in for it too late. Tomorrow at work there will only be 4 others besides me A full crew is 20. Maybe if I put in for it now I might be able to get xmas 2021 off.

In one way it works for me. If it wasn't xmas a couple days hence, I would have stayed in the shop much longer than I did. But that was not to be as I need this opportunity to wrap my wife's gifts. I've been putting it off because I like wrapping presents about as much I would like sticking a fork into my right eye repeatedly.

not much to clean up

There is a bit of glue causing the some blue tape remnants to cling to the dowels. But there are no glue dribs or drabs on the top and pencil marks to get rid off.

flushed to the top

There are a few indentations around the dowels that I have deal with. I am going to try and steam them out as I also have two clamp marks on the front to do.

this will be ready

I got a coat of shellac on and it looks good. If I can squeeze it in, I'll try to put another coat on before I go to bed. If not I can get a couple of coats on it tomorrow. I only have a half a day of work to put in.

my wife's present stash

This has all the small presents I got for my wife in it. It's been in the shop on this chair for a month. Tonight I dealt with it.

I have been thinking of some way to fix the blow outs on the through mortises. Paul Sellers went over how to avoid this today on his woodworking class video. I have two of them that have a couple of not so big chips gone, but big enough that they can be seem 3-4 feet away. At least I can and I wear glasses. There isn't any rush on this and I have time to think about a solution for it.

accidental woodworker

trivia corner
What well know millionaire died when the Titanic sank?
answer - John Jacob Astor