11-18-2020, 01:51 AM
Thanks, Charlie. All of the desk parts have been primed, and I believe that our daughter is planning the next coat for Thursday, as it's expected to be unseasonably warm. Once the components have two coats of the finish paint on them, I'll assemble the parts. However, I think that they're going to redo the floor in that room, so that will have to be in place before the desk is installed.
I built another desk for her several years ago, and it's also in that room - it's too heavy to be moved, even by two people, but can be disassembled. I hope to get pictures of both.
Making the second desk has now got two of our granddaughters interested in having custom made desks, too, but I won't work on those until next spring, as I'll have to work either outside or, if the weather's lousy, in the garage, which is definitely not a good place to build furniture.
When I built our house, all of the kitchen cabinets were built in the basement, in what eventually became my layout room.
Once I had this latest desk mostly made, I took the parts into the layout room to set them up to see if they went together properly. They took-up part of this aisle...
...and part of this adjoining aisle...
....as the desk is "L"-shaped, and roughly 6'x7'x2' deep. It was a tight squeeze to get past it as the first aisle is less than 3'wide, although the second one is close to 4' in width.
Charlie, I was somewhat surprised when in October, I ordered some train stuff, mostly parts, from Tichy. The parts arrived in 4 days, with only the normal shipping fees to Canada - no duty, no HST (federal & provincial tax) and none of the ridiculous "handling fee" that was formerly charged. It's my opinion that if the border agents wish to handle my stuff, they oughta pay me for that privilege.
Charlie, I still prefer to pick-up my orders from you, as it gives us good opportunities to get together. I hope that in the coming year, we will have lots of those get-togethers and that the circumstances now keeping us apart will be resolved by then.
Wayne
I built another desk for her several years ago, and it's also in that room - it's too heavy to be moved, even by two people, but can be disassembled. I hope to get pictures of both.
Making the second desk has now got two of our granddaughters interested in having custom made desks, too, but I won't work on those until next spring, as I'll have to work either outside or, if the weather's lousy, in the garage, which is definitely not a good place to build furniture.
When I built our house, all of the kitchen cabinets were built in the basement, in what eventually became my layout room.
Once I had this latest desk mostly made, I took the parts into the layout room to set them up to see if they went together properly. They took-up part of this aisle...
...and part of this adjoining aisle...
....as the desk is "L"-shaped, and roughly 6'x7'x2' deep. It was a tight squeeze to get past it as the first aisle is less than 3'wide, although the second one is close to 4' in width.
(11-17-2020, 06:47 PM)Charlie B Wrote: ...We need to get cross border shipping fees to be made the same as in country. Then you could build more....
Charlie, I was somewhat surprised when in October, I ordered some train stuff, mostly parts, from Tichy. The parts arrived in 4 days, with only the normal shipping fees to Canada - no duty, no HST (federal & provincial tax) and none of the ridiculous "handling fee" that was formerly charged. It's my opinion that if the border agents wish to handle my stuff, they oughta pay me for that privilege.
Charlie, I still prefer to pick-up my orders from you, as it gives us good opportunities to get together. I hope that in the coming year, we will have lots of those get-togethers and that the circumstances now keeping us apart will be resolved by then.
Wayne