So I had a 3 day weekend this past weekend, and I decided to make it a productive one. My truck is still out of commission, so I thought I should buy enough wood to make it worth renting a truck to pick it up. I saved enough by buying bigger sheets of plywood and cutting it down, as well as fitting all the dimensional lumber in one trip versus 3 or 4 with the car; huzzah!
As the weekend went on, I realized I'd bitten off the proverbial more than I could chew in 3 days. Over the 3 days, I made 5 separate runs to Home Depot. Good thing it's only 1 1/2 miles away. The first "plan of attack" was to finish my "almost completed" japanese weapons case. All it needed was to build, install and stain some doors (to keep the cats off the weapons).
Eh, might as well make a second case for the european weapons, right? I disassembled the case I posted previous pics of, to reuse the "guts" of it for another 4' x 7' case, replacing only the outer pieces, adding a backer board, and building doors for it. If you haven't tried, building plywood doors is NOT fun with the low-end quality lumber, especially thinner stuff like 1/4". It warps and wiggles. A lot. With the amount of time, effort and "adjustments" I had to make to use the plywood doors, I wish I had just built out a "traditional" paneled door with plexiglass to see through. I opted not to originally, since it would be $99 of plexiglass per case and I've never worked with it; but for the price of the plywood, the 2 boxes of tiny screws to attach the small trim strips, the trim strips themselves, and the time to measure/cut/install/stain the little trim strips, if I did it again it would be worth the ~$50 difference to upgrade to plexiglass doors, and would take at least a few hours off the assembly time for each case. I also found out the 2 hinges make the doors "wobble" when opening; I'm going to get more hinges for the top/bottom of the door to reduce that, and again, with a framed plexiglass door vs the plywood, the framed plexiglass wouldn't have the problem since the door frames would be 3x-4x thicker. Sigh. So the "office" is pretty messy with all the weaponry waiting for a new home:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I also got wood to build a new bed frame, another armor stand, and plywood bases for the armor stands to have them "freestanding" and not just leaned against the wall. I did get 3 stands mounted to the plywood before calling it quits until the weaponry gets moved to it's new home:
Still on the list? Acquire and install the extra hinges. Stain the second case (I finished the first one last night). Then relocating the fish aquarium into the other room - because I forgot the lights in the room I was going to put the second case are wired into the wall and two cases won't fit. And install "magic sliders" on the aquarium stand to keep it from messing up the wood floor. At least that's motivation to finish the baseboards that I replaced when I replaced all the flooring last year when the water heater busted and ruined the floor... they're puttied and sanded, now to pick up some paint brushes and get finished by Friday so I can post some "completed projects" pictures instead of just pictures of a mess.
