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KBBS Archive 10,000
Re: My Methadone Program
Posted By: Shawn Baker In Response To: My Methadone Program (Jack)
Date: Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 2:46 p.m.
Thanks for sharing, Jack!
I'm Shawn, and I'm addicted to boats
[Hi Shawn]
My wife just can't understand how I'd rather build another boat rather than refacing our kitchen cabinets. I'm just not sure I can cope anymore! ;)
I might break down and do the cabinets next summer. I'm thinking raised panels made out of MDF, and paint the whole thing white.
Shawn
> My project for the winter is building new kitchen cabinets. Some how it’s
> just not the same and I suspect before long I’ll be looking to “score”
> another boat project. I love projects that let me justify buying new
> tools. The kitchen cabnets qualifies by letting me get some fancy router
> bits and a router table for the raised panels. But it still doesn’t
> compare to the high I was getting from building the Guillemot last winter.> Cabinets are an all power tool affair and I really miss quietly shaving
> cedar strips with a really sharp block plane or fairing with a spoke
> shave. Secondly your always under the tyranny of square. So many right
> angles. In boat building the shape of long fair curves are so pleasing to
> look at.> Clearly this cabnet project is my “methadone program”…. it stops the
> shakes but still leaves me longing for that old high. Somehow I can't
> invision spending time on a kitchen cabinet BBS dicussing issues in this
> depth and I will be back building another kayak> Jack
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