Blizzard of Sawdust and Blinds

Rick worked very hard today cutting boards to size and setting up the dovetail jig so he could cut the dovetail joints for the slide-outs.  The router makes a tremendous amount of sawdust when cutting dovetails in 3/4 boards, so at times we seemed to have a light tan sawdust blizzard blowing through the garage.

Once we cut the bottoms out of the large piece of plywood
in the background, we can glue these slide-outs together
to complete them for the tall cabinet.

By noon, he had finished cutting the four slide-outs and the three top drawers for the base cabinets.  He cut the wood to length for the middle drawer and the large file drawer, but the jig set-up is giving him problems because the spacers he needs were not sold at the time he bought his Leigh jig.  Of course, the spacers are not sold by any retailer in America, so he had to order them from Canada.  Now we wait... five to seven days before they arrive.

The pieces of four slide-outs and three drawers
await a dado into which we will insert the bottoms.

In the meantime, we can clean the garage tomorrow (lots of vacuuming!) and stain the spacer/ installation bars for the slide-outs.  We also can cut the dados in the slide-out and drawers so they accept the bottoms.  We have the plywood for the bottoms, so we also can cut those, too.  Then, we can assemble the slide-outs and drawers and varnish them all.  While we wait to cut the dovetails in the last two drawers, we will not sit idly by.  There always is something to do.

Today we received a welcome delivery: our blinds for the laundry room.  We both were disappointed that the header bar was white instead of the "complementary color" that their Web site promised, but in reality, the white may be best.  The color of the blinds blends very well with the walls, and next to the white washer and dryer, the white header and bottom bar complements the overall decor.

The new blinds will give us the ability to filter light
and to have some privacy in this room.

I did not want any chains or cords on the blinds, so we chose a double waffle-weave that we can simply push up or pull down.  Since they probably only will be opened and closed once a day, they should last for a very long time.

I must admit that since we started this project in June, we have not had one day where we have woken up in the morning and wondered what we were going to do with the day!  Tomorrow will be busy indeed.