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    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. 

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  2. 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.

    On 1/17/2024 at 12:08 PM, Grahame said:

    ^ is that  'shopped,  or is there really graffiti in your hood, @VPI

    There's about as much chance that's real graffiti, as that opener being used on a bottle of Olympia beer.

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  3. Assembled, glued and clamped. The fit is fantastic. 

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    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.

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  4. 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.

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    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.

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  5. 5 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

    @swt61 @TMoney If you are interesting in AK life, Northern Exposure is available to stream on Amazon. I have vague memories of liking it from when it was on, and it turns out to be pretty good.

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    Yep. Watched it back in the day. Was actually filmed in Washington, but still pretty faithful to remote Alaskan life.

  6. 16 hours ago, TMoney said:

    I thought this started strong, but by the end I hated it. Less up its own ass than season 2, but only just.

    I didn't hate it, but I thought the ending was crap. At least the part you know I'm talking about. 

    One thing that might have had me liking it more than some was the way they got village life above the Arctic Circle so much better than most. I feel like they actually did some research. 

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