Why don't we just build a window? Part Five.

Nick spent yesterday and the afternoon in the shop today. He cleaned up all the old fir that we have salvaged from the house. There were some old kitchen cabinet shelves and some old posts taken out of the walls. He cut them down to size and put them through the planer and they look great. We’re close to having enough wood for the rest of the sashes for the main floor windows. If there’s not enough, we’ll end up buying a bit. The wood that is good will be used for the inside of the sashes that we will varnish. The rest of the wood will be for the exterior part that will be painted.

There was one little glitch this weekend. Nick missed a nail that was in one board and it hit the blade on the Sawstop. The bad news is that the blade and cartridge for the Sawstop are shot. The good news is that we know the stop mechanism really works and no fingers were involved. We took some pictures and I’m sure he’ll make separate post about that. So we’re one step closer to windows for the first floor. Yahoo!