After days of moving shop fixtures and cabinets around in a futile effort to made the shop bigger....Strange how if you start with 500 square feet no matter how you rearrange you end up with 500 square feet.
After freeing up the bench tops from all that moving stuff, I started chopping the mortises in the Cherry rails for the tool chest lid. There are just four of them to chop the only semi difficult aspect is they are fairly deep and narrow, 3/8" X 50mm. Cruising along with the Turnpike Troubadours playing in the background. BTW, if you haven't checked out the "Red Dirt" music scene, you should. There are some really smart song writers working the genre. IIRC they were in the chorus and I was singing along "you wrecked my house, you wrecked my car, you wrecked my life, and left the pieces scattered on the lawn". Ah so easily distracted, on with the story. I'm doing the last mortise of the four, down to about 50mm on the far end and 10mm left to remove on the near end to finish, being careful because I know how easily Cherry splits. Need I go on.
I guess it took a couple of seconds to work through the 5 stages of grief before I very eloquently expressed my innermost thoughts. What was it Sam Elliot said: "Some days you eat the Bar, some days the Bar eats you".
Come to think of it, maybe the singing did the number on that last mortise.
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