21 May
1999
21 May
'99
2:04 p.m.
It will cost you about 6 hours worth of time to saw
the wood and nail it
together if you are not an experienceed carpenter.
It will weigh a lot and will be a bitch to tear down if you ever wanted to
move it somewhere else.
I can testify to this. I'm not an 'experienced carpenter' (yet.. I
really
love woodworking, even if it is just building shelves and the like...)
I'm Production Manager for my high schools's drama department (this means
that I'm the person that builds and moves all the sets around) so I have a
fairly good idea how to build things... my father, unfortunately, does
not.
When we moved into this house, he thought it would be a good idea to have
some shelves to store boxes on... great idea. Unfortunately, he apparently
had no idea whatsoever how to go about this. We're moving again now and my
parents said I could have the lumber to build new shelves for my area in
the basement. I took apart the shelves... two of them... in about four
hours... not much fun. My dad has the nasty tendancy when a nail gets
slightly bent to hammer it into the wood sideways... a realy bitch to try
to get out.. (I'm building the next with screws!)
And it also wasn't much fun hauling 24 32"x24" plywood boards up the
stairs... then the 8 6' 2x4s... oh well.
Kevin