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Local dealers are marking up the last remaining Rubicons over MSRP now. Might just hire a car service for the year to let all the bullshit get past before buying a car.

I will just borrow Brent’s.

Since Brent has screwed up one of my choices I am adding another to try today. Of course I would drive directly to a tire place and get 37s on as the 33s look goofy. Limited edition 75th Anniversary Power Wagon that usually sells before the make it to the lot, but people are probably afraid of the color.

Difficult. I trust Nate, but he has the same opinion as Brent which is very troubling. Nate, do you need a vacation? Is Brent holding you hostage in the NAMBLA HQ basement? At this point the BMW wins for looks, but everything else, not so much. Ride quality is terrible and really only driveable in comfort mode, same stupid ass situation as the Audi with massive wheels on track tires that only work a few months a year here so I have to buy a whole extra set of at least tires and BMW still does that noisy ass start thing where when you start a cold car it roars for like 40 seconds like a fucking dump truck, disturbing the tranquility of the lake house.

Tired of fucking around with dealers with shortages or price increases. Tomorrow buying either the X3 M Competition or a loaded Rubicon in stock locally. Just trade them in on a Lightning in 2022-2023.

I’ll respond to that with a meme I stole from Zach.

Sales manager decided to add a $10k market adjustment fee to the red truck so I told them to fuck off and I am planning what I will do to them the next time I am in Texas. Now I either get a vehicle that will lose little value for a year and pick up a Ford next year or get the BMW and just stick with a tiny, fast SUV. Biggest drawback to the M Competition is I am not sure the stealth hitch that works on it will have enough clearance to actually tow a trailer with the low rider or if it is just for hitch mounted bike carriers/etc.

Trying to work out a deal on this, that will actually get me to Texas for mom’s B-Day just in time for it to arrive at the dealer which is about an hour from their house.

Went and test drove a back-up option if I cannot find a nicer F-150.

Cannot even find anything in Texas now. The ones around here that have anything not low end in stock have started adding a $5k market adjustment price to everything.

WTF is a dust shoe?

Officially updated the build. Truck was built on the 27th of April and will now sit in a parking lot until August waiting for fucking chips for delivery in September. Time to cancel and fly to Texas to buy a truck.

Not sure which news you are referring to, but why would I want one of those hooptys?

Probably spoke too soon. The Ford tracking site is now updating for people and those with trucks built in March that have been sitting in a parking lot ever since are getting delivery dates of August. Looks like might need to go choose something else new to buy as the chips are catching up. My delivery will probably be pushed to 2022 at this rate.

Building the world’s least efficient hardwood cutoff storage cabinet. Really needed the drawers above it so instead of doing the typical, proper, vertical cabinet, I went half-assed and threw all the sticks in a big drawer with sheets goods held behind the cabinet against the wall. Oh Yeah, the reason for the uneven overhang is I am going to mount the Wilton Woodworking vice on the one side and needed all the clearance. Oh Yeah Part Two, I also FINALLY got around to hanging the small French cleat panel I made way back. The craftsmanship in these holders in embarrassing.

Happy Belated Shelly, looks like it was pretty damned happy. 🙂

Looks like the chips did not impact my order. Mine will be here in two weeks, about a month and a half earlier than I expected.

All of my research led to liquid nails as the thing to do for attaching this. Silicone is what is preferred but since these will be moved around, etc. everything said not to use silicone as it is best for static cabinets, etc.

Attempt #1 in gluing quartz to wood. Definitely should have worked with the handplane before attempting this glue up. Not sure how well it is going to work. Also hung up the clampseses.

The amount of lumber I would waste trying to figure out how to properly do those joints in unfathomable. That thing is awesome.

Sorry it is going back to Grizzly. I decided they needed to eat the cost for shipping out such shit. Shipped out with a thin styrofoam packing that was broken into a thousand pieces when I got it. Going back in the same fucking packaging.

Put the jointer together. It is garbage. I am not even willing to turn it on while I am the same room with it as everything about it is so cheap and poorly designed. Going to just put it out with recycling next week, I would rather not have a jointer than use this thing.

OWL Hardwoods had plenty as does Rockler as they were doing something like 24x48 sheets for less than $30 the last time I was there and had a pretty huge stack.

It will work fine for the stuff I am working with now, but the narrow head is going to be a problem with many projects. The rolling cabinet for this thing is going to cost more than the jointer at this point. $83 for a sheet of Baltic Birch at OWL today.

Already planning a wood scrap, giant drawer, mobile jointer cabinet so I can have it done before the unit gets here tomorrow. I think it will be a disappointing unit, but the fancy ones you guys have would not be to be until February, months after I have moved on from woodworking.