I spent about an hour and a half out in the woodshop after work today. It's a marvelous place to go and forget the worries of the day. It is hard to concentrate on anything else when you are pushing a 4 X 8 Sheet of plywood through the table saw. It requires planning, execution, and attention to detail. The help of a troop of woodworking gnomes would come in handy too. They could help me keep everything straight and square. Because, if you slip up, you end up with a very apparent divot taken from what was to be a straight edge. Much as I would like a cabinet saw, I do not see it as an option anytime soon.
It's kind of like that huge drum sander. I would love to have one since I personally do not like the unending boredom of hours of sanding. Much as I would like to have one, it is well beyond my budget currently. I even tried a medical arguement with my wife. I claimed that the tennis elbow that I often get from sanding would justify the purchase. She still seems unmoved however. I even tried connecting recurrent bouts of tennis elbow to cardiac arrest. (You laugh, but it worked for George W. Bush. He connected Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and got away with it.) I guess that I'm going to have to wait until it comes down in price. (Hint! Hint! Rockler)
The reason why that sander looks like such a good thing right now is because I am putting together four bookcases for the living room. They will be 7' 6" high by 3 feet wide. That means there will be acres of sanding to do as I prepare the body sides and the shelves for finishing.
Do you know any gnomes that specialize in sanding?
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