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When I was a young kid I thought that Bobbie Gentry was an exotic, classy woman. She made the rounds on the numerous 70's variety shows. The songs that she wrote were absolutely controversial for that time. "Fancy" was a song about a dying Mother turning her teenage Daughter out to a wealthy man. And she wrote it in the late 60s. And she was a Country music artist! I have no idea how she got away with it, but her beauty probably had something to do with it. I don't think the good ol' boys of Music Row really grasped true nature of her music. This was, and still is a favorite of mine...

I've always loved both versions, but I didn't know that they ever performed it together. Great stuff!

I remember buying some of the first mesh style sanding disc at Woodcraft in Austin years back. It's so easy to keep unclogged, so it last a long time. The hard part is keeping the outer edges from fraying. Hopefully we'll see pics of your completed project Marc.

The 3M Cubitron mesh discs are very highly rated!

Welcome Junie!

Well, virtual beaver worship is nothing new, but I attest to not understanding it as well.

It's the 3mm that confused me. That's a mighty small sander! OK, after a little investigation I see that it comes in different stroke sizes, and 3mm is one of them. But yeah, I use the mesh disc on Al's often.

I had no idea that there was a gay Niagra Falls! Is it close to the regular one?

Had breakfast at the Hummingbird with Dorothy and her bo Gavin. I had fried chicken hash, Dorothy had chicken and waffles and Gavin had Heuvos Rancheros. Forgot to take pics.

The happiest of Birthdays Nate!

Have a phenomenal day Sir!

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Why not bacon brownies?

Happy Birthday Naaman! How do they celebrate Birthdays in Arkansas? Have the best Birthday ever! Maybe a new Bronco Raptor?

Wait, what? They actually have cable TV in Sacramento? Oh, I should have read further. Glad you got to enjoy civilization for a little bit longer.

The finish matches their existing headboard/frame quite well.

Forgot to show the pull under the drawer.

To say that I'm happy with the finished product is an understatement. What I really want to do is keep these for myself and tell Al's Sisters in law that they were just too messed up Certainly the nicest Milo & Otis product to date IMO. We're going to sneak these into their house and wait for them to discover tonight.

Al thinks it's funny how much I love that tool. It's just fun to use, aside from making better pocket holes than my Kregg jig. There's about as much chance that's real graffiti, as that opener being used on a bottle of Olympia beer.

More pics from Milo. Otis is using the "Naamanator". The custom pocket joint machine that Naaman graciously CNCed for us. It makes fantastic pocket holes. A shallower angle that holds much better.

Assembled, glued and clamped. The fit is fantastic. No weight needed in the base boxes. Not at all top heavy, even with drawers fully extended. The glue needs to dry overnight, then tomorrow is final sand with 320 Grit and start applying the Rubio Monocoat, wax oil finish.

The latest Milo & Otis joint is coming along nicely. The two end tables basically consist of 3 boxes each. The top horizontal box, which encompasses the drawer, the middle vertical box and the bottom horizontal box. Aside from those three boxes are the two drawers (One per nightstand). And the bases which are maybe an inch and a half tall, and provide a shadow line under the bottom box. We have milled all the rabbits, put together the three separate boxes, flush trimmed all joints and sanded all panels. Very happy with how flat and well fitted everything is to this point. Left to do is joining the three boxes together, building the drawers and finishing the stands. The narrow, vertical middle boxes were rabbited on each end, to allow us to install plywood panels that will secure the top and bottom boxes by gluing and screwing them together. We used a large rabbiting bit on the router table. It was a little bit awkward, but worked a charm. As you can see in the pics, the Black dyed plywood panels will end up being the bottom panels that the base attaches to. These will be screwed only, to allow us to add weight in the form of sand, to make the stands bottom heavy, and thus less likely to topple over once the drawers are fully extended out. We kind of like the Black plywood, and plan on dying the plywood drawers Black as well. Oh, and Milo's finger is healing nicely.

Happy Birthday Dan!

Nice job saving a perfectly good desk, other than the crappy casters. I too have upgraded casters on many furniture items.