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gurdymonkey) wrote2010-01-23 10:18 am
gurdymonkey) wrote2010-01-23 10:18 am
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Sugoroku 2.0
Is Lush's Squeaky Green not squeaky enough? I have long hair. I do not like to shampoo every day, particularly in the dead of winter, because I don't use a blow drier. I've been using the Squeaky Green solid shampoo for a week now, alternating between the L'Oreal conditioner that comes with my hair color and a Suave conditioner that I like. By the end of day two, my hair starts feeling oily and when I wake up the following morning, it's downright stringy looking. I'm not sure if it's the shampoo or the combination of the shampoo with the conditioners I've been using. In the interest of science - and justifying what I paid for the stuff, I just washed my hair with the Squeaky Green again and did not condition. I want to see what it's like tomorrow, and more importantly, Monday morning.
That said, I am extremely pleased with the hand cream, which, being sample sized, is going to run out. I'm not enamored of the scent which is too whitechocolateyvanilla for my tastes, but it does keep these abused old lady claws feeling nice. The eye cream is nice and non-irritating, and the shower gel and solid perfume are fine.
I started working on the sugoroku box 2.0 last night. Amazing what one can do with a small hand saw, a bottle of Tite-bond II and a great deal of precut craft plywood. Four 12" x 24 x 1/4" sheets for the bottom, sides and lid, two 12" x 12 x 1/4" sheets for the sides. Some 1/2" square dowels are cut and used to hold the whole thing together and some 1/4" square dowel strips will be glued to the tops of each long side and to the edges of the lid so that everything squares up correctly. 100% glued joinery (the stolen one held quite a bit of moderately heavy crap and never failed on me), and the only cutting is on the dowels and can be easily achieved with a small hand saw or craft saw over my kitchen sink.
I'm in the gluing and clamping stage, which, owing to the fact that I have only a couple of C-clamps, is easy but takes time. I don't think you can see it here, but the long splats are recessed slightly from the end - this is so the end boards can be fitted. I recall that trying to decorate the end boards last time made me nuts. This time, I'm going to decorate them before they get glued into the body of the box - the first of several coats of black paint has just been applied. Maybe this time I won't paint it out and start over again so many times.
And now I'm off to see if I can find some unobtrusive, Asian-ish looking drawer pulls to mount as side handles. I never got around to doing that on the old box, but carry handles would have been nice.
EDIT: Mission accomplished. Japan Woodworker's reproduction tansu pulls looked a bit too dainty to use for lifting. (OMG, they have beautiful kitchen knives though!) I ended up with some rust-finished pulls from Restoration Hardware . Yeah, I was forced to pay Fourth Street Full Yuppie Retail, but it probably balances out between trying to run all over the area looking for something or adding shipping costs into something acquired online. Sorta. Most importantly (and something that might be hard to tell when trying to order something online) , the mount screw is plenty sturdy. I'll just glue a piece of that 1/4" square poplar to the back of the short sides, drill through it, and Yoshi's Your Uncle.
Note to self, hem those yoga pants. Once the hems actually dry, that is. I bought two pairs of the exact same style and brand in the exact same size and one is about an inch longer than the other.
Hmm, should be time to glue and clamp another piece and put coat two on the end boards.
EDIT The Second: I posted a note about this to the Tousando. A member queried, "Aren't the sides going to be 1/4" inch too short?"
This is where those teeny little 1/4" x 24" square dowels come in. It doesn't hurt that I did this same project a year ago and worked out the geometry back then. BTW, the 1/4" craft dowels are supposed to be 24" long, but they're slightly longer than the 24" plywood boards. Clearly they are milled in alternate universes. It's easy enough to glue the dowel to the edge of the boards that need the additional width, then trim the length with my hand saw.
Most of the glueing that I can do at this point is done. The end boards have received three coats of black gloss paint and been sanded. I can start on the ornamental paint work tomorrow. I'll probably stick with the wheels-in-the-river scheme unless I suddenly think of something I like better.
That said, I am extremely pleased with the hand cream, which, being sample sized, is going to run out. I'm not enamored of the scent which is too whitechocolateyvanilla for my tastes, but it does keep these abused old lady claws feeling nice. The eye cream is nice and non-irritating, and the shower gel and solid perfume are fine.
I started working on the sugoroku box 2.0 last night. Amazing what one can do with a small hand saw, a bottle of Tite-bond II and a great deal of precut craft plywood. Four 12" x 24 x 1/4" sheets for the bottom, sides and lid, two 12" x 12 x 1/4" sheets for the sides. Some 1/2" square dowels are cut and used to hold the whole thing together and some 1/4" square dowel strips will be glued to the tops of each long side and to the edges of the lid so that everything squares up correctly. 100% glued joinery (the stolen one held quite a bit of moderately heavy crap and never failed on me), and the only cutting is on the dowels and can be easily achieved with a small hand saw or craft saw over my kitchen sink.
I'm in the gluing and clamping stage, which, owing to the fact that I have only a couple of C-clamps, is easy but takes time. I don't think you can see it here, but the long splats are recessed slightly from the end - this is so the end boards can be fitted. I recall that trying to decorate the end boards last time made me nuts. This time, I'm going to decorate them before they get glued into the body of the box - the first of several coats of black paint has just been applied. Maybe this time I won't paint it out and start over again so many times. And now I'm off to see if I can find some unobtrusive, Asian-ish looking drawer pulls to mount as side handles. I never got around to doing that on the old box, but carry handles would have been nice.
EDIT: Mission accomplished. Japan Woodworker's reproduction tansu pulls looked a bit too dainty to use for lifting. (OMG, they have beautiful kitchen knives though!) I ended up with some rust-finished pulls from Restoration Hardware . Yeah, I was forced to pay Fourth Street Full Yuppie Retail, but it probably balances out between trying to run all over the area looking for something or adding shipping costs into something acquired online. Sorta. Most importantly (and something that might be hard to tell when trying to order something online) , the mount screw is plenty sturdy. I'll just glue a piece of that 1/4" square poplar to the back of the short sides, drill through it, and Yoshi's Your Uncle.
Note to self, hem those yoga pants. Once the hems actually dry, that is. I bought two pairs of the exact same style and brand in the exact same size and one is about an inch longer than the other.
Hmm, should be time to glue and clamp another piece and put coat two on the end boards.
EDIT The Second: I posted a note about this to the Tousando. A member queried, "Aren't the sides going to be 1/4" inch too short?"
This is where those teeny little 1/4" x 24" square dowels come in. It doesn't hurt that I did this same project a year ago and worked out the geometry back then. BTW, the 1/4" craft dowels are supposed to be 24" long, but they're slightly longer than the 24" plywood boards. Clearly they are milled in alternate universes. It's easy enough to glue the dowel to the edge of the boards that need the additional width, then trim the length with my hand saw.
Most of the glueing that I can do at this point is done. The end boards have received three coats of black gloss paint and been sanded. I can start on the ornamental paint work tomorrow. I'll probably stick with the wheels-in-the-river scheme unless I suddenly think of something I like better.
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