Monday, February 8, 2016

Dresser mostly finished

We have the dresser in our bedroom --- but technically it is NOT finished.  We want to add some cedar posts on the corners.....and the mirror is not even started.   We are still pondering on how to do the mirror.   We  need to cut the posts - and they will come from a live tree --- so the wood will need drying time..... a couple of months.

                                        

Those drawers are so nice!!!  They are much bigger than the ones we had and they have "self closing" drawer guides.   However, they were (and still are) a puzzle and aggravation to Gary.  The bottom drawer would NOT close nice.....I guess you could say it closed in a wobbly fashion....not smooth like it should.   So he put shims here and shims there and then he took the shims out and then he put in thinner shims and on and on it went.   Nothing would make that drawer close nice.  So in his frustration he put the bottom drawer (the one that didn't work right) into the top drawer slot ...... worked nice...... so then he put the top drawer into the bottom slot --- WORKED NICE!!!   What is going on here?!?!?   Still a puzzle -- but everything works fantastic so who cares --- I don't -- he still wonders on it.

He is out in the shop right now making me a new jewelry box....a cedar jewelry box.  Can't have that ugly paper mache covered thing sitting on  top making things look bad.  So I am in a win win situation  :)  :)  :)

Thank you Lord, for the skills you have given Gary!!!
Barb

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