Recent content by sleizure

Alot of time has passed since I've been able to give an update. I was down for the count for most of September as I put an axe through my foot (!) and was waiting for parts to arrive. I also dunked my phone in the River and lost a few photos, but this one has the goods. I received 8 new 4 inch...

No pictures this time around, just a bit of an update of what's going on in my world. My phone fell in the river last week and all my photos are locked on it. The bag of rice trick worked for a day, but not enough for me to get the photos off. Switching rice brands. My beer lines came in, and I...

Yeeow - getting close to the finish line here, but in actuality I have a tonne more to do. I finished the staining and the sealing, but overall I'm not impressed with the results. I put too much stain on which removed some of that amazing grain look and well I kinda liked it. Too late now, I'm...

Just wanted to add, varnishing/sealing sucks. I have made a mess out of the two sides of the coffin. I sanded off the front face of the tower and some of the lid today and in stain matching hell. no photos. just shame! Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Riding off my successful morning I decided it was time to put some stain on. I chose Old Masters Red Mahogany and got to staining the tower in the garage. It was 31degrees out and wiping the stain on you could almost hear the braincells popping. My neighbour found me melting on the floor of the...

I live on Vancouver Island in the Comox Valley. I too had always thought Mahogany was out of my league, but for some reason it's cheaper than Aspen, Birch, and Oak everything else. It comes from Windsor Lumber, which is a chain across Canada where they may have similar prices.

Today out of all the days just sort of flowed. I was able to get 55ft of 1x2 Mahogany and a 34.5x14.5 acrylic sheet cut the day before, woke up feeling moderately good and went at it. I feel that I'm completed all of my woodwork now and getting ready to move onto the finishing, staining and all...

One more for today.. The other day the replacement holesaw came in so I went to finish off the holes in the top lid and also the freezer lid. My wife came outside and was doing something and came by the garage. She seemed interested in what I was doing so I pretended I was doing amazing stuff...

I had held off for a while going to get more wood cut because the wood shop was out of 1x2 mahogany and when I bought the last bit it was all bent and not straight. No returns at the wood shop is a real shocker, but rather than sitting and doing nothing I went and got more plywood and a 1x8...

I then figured it was time to drill some holes into the 1/4", the 1inch ply and into the freezer lid. I sort of guessed where a good spot would be and started going at it with a cheap 3.5 inch hole saw. Then the drill overheated and the battery never worked again. Then I broke the holesaw...

Fast forward a few weeks and I had this crazy idea that I was going to mount a monitor into this bar to show a digital tap list. I found a LG 34" ultrawide for a pretty reasonable price, ordered some cheap mount from aliexpress and waited for it all to arrive. Once it did, I started building the...

Feeling pretty confident about how things were going I had to go and vacuum the floor as apparently you are not supposed to be drilling and cutting on a rug (house rules?) and also went out and found some guy selling a cheap mitre saw on craigslist. Then I went to buy some trim. I grabbed a...

A few weeks went past and I headed out to the wood store again, asked them to cut nicely for me for the top and the outer skin of the unit. I opted for 1/2" Mahogany on the outside, and a 1inch Plytopper for the lid, along with a 1/4" sheet of mahogany ontop of that in order to recess my drip...

About a week later I built up the courage to go back at it, somewhere finding some cheap ply to cover the inside of the ribcage to perform the first "is this thing actually going to fit inside of it" It did, and there was no need to hack my freezer legs and wheels off. I headed out to the...

The first day we moved into the house I went and bought two freezers from Costco. Danby 9.6cuft-ers. One was earmarked for the project, and the other was for storing hops (and apparently my wife wants to use it for meat and stuff). In all its glory. Finding a couple old janky sawhorses in the...