Day 153

I fought the router, and the router won.

I started out using the table saw instead of the jigsaw to do the straight cuts. It worked fine, but I really need to buy a new blade. Then I carefully set up the router to cut a groove. I tried it out on a piece of scrap. I made a small adjustment and then tried the real wood. That's when I found out the the fence comes loose from the vibration of the router. The cut wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.

I reset the router to cut the tongue and reefed on the fence bolts with a pliers. The first cut was fine. The second cut screwed up because I'd forgotten to tighten one of the bolts. Scratch another $5 piece of wood. I've now messed up three.

I went to Lowe's and bought a 6' board this time. It will give me at least another 3 chances to mess it up. I was going to stop at the grocery store, but it was too hot to leave the dog. I took her to the park and she did three retrieves before quitting.

When I got home I was too disgusted to do anything. So I sat on the deck and read.