Merci, Alain!
Thanks Bernie. I do eat and sleep.
Actually I spend on average about a half a day out in the shop every day that I can. I recorded about 300 hours for the114 window sashes, coming to about 2-3/4 hours each. I admit that this job became a serious grind. Each operation takes hours, since there are so many parts. For the last 23 days, to glue up three windows, clean up the three from the day before, check and fit the parts for the next day's glue-up of three, and then final sanding three, took almost 3-3/4 hours per day. And that's nearly all I did each day on this job. That was a slog; every day the same thing.
Just picked up the wood for the two doors and their respective windows today. There's an odd market for white oak. The rage in architecture today is to use rift sawn white oak, which is grain about 30-60 degrees from vertical. That gives a very linear grain, and no rays that you see in quarter sawn. So for the door which will be 1-3/8" thick, I had to pick through the rack of rift sawn oak looking for the few pieces that are actually closer to quarter sawn. Without the demand for all the rift sawn oak, they wouldn't carry anything in that thickness. This job should be more enjoyable -- only two doors and four windows! And I know how to do the windows.
Oh, and I won't be there for SWW this April. I don't think the windows will be needed
that soon. I also want to complete the salon (toilet) walls and door as well. Then I should have a big enough load to justify the drive again. Or maybe I will just crate it all up and ship it freight.
