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Post a picture of your current job.

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Part I
Part II
 
#4,990 ·
Jast taking your shed for a morning stroll?
 
#4,991 ·
Had to assemble this (whateverthehellitis) for Macy's. Apparently it's what they think is going to sell men's fragrance in the store.

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#4,994 ·
First the McDonald’s kiosks, now this. Twenty years ago my buddy’s mother sold cologne at Macy’s. Now it’s all done by machine. Next you’re gonna see robots sanding.

We’re entering a post industrial mechanized retail hell.

And since when did cabinet makers build robots… the ****.
 
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#4,995 ·
It's my handyman job. I work for a Management company out of MO. For 3 years I've been doing handyman stuff for a place called Francesca's Collections. Just recently they've been sending me to a particular mall to do display setups.

As for the display it's static. The robot does nothing. Not even sounds. The larger cube at the top has 3 dispensers that have a fragrance sample, you just pull them out like you would a deli counter ticket. That's as much technology there is in that display.
 
#4,996 ·
Leo G said:
It's my handyman job. I work for a Management company out of MO. For 3 years I've been doing handyman stuff for a place called Francesca's Collections. Just recently they've been sending me to a particular mall to do display setups.

As for the display it's static. The robot does nothing. Not even sounds. The larger cube at the top has 3 dispensers that have a fragrance sample, you just pull them out like you would a deli counter ticket. That's as much technology there is in that display.
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No gimbals or servos? I’m disappointed.
 
#4,997 ·
All I did was unbox it, assemble it and throw away all the trash. But no. It's a shiny boring display.
 
#4,999 ·
Where ever they send me. Next job is another Francesca's call. Just came in today.
 
#5,000 ·
Got 4 18th century windows that need to be repaired. What was I thinking? 🙁

Took the bottom rail off after removing the 4 panes of glass. It was rotted and punky with holes.
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Remaking them with Red Grandis.

I have a square hole mortiser attachment for my drill press and used it to make the 1/4"x1" mortises.
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I don't have a 5/16" stub spindle cutter to do the copes so I had to do them with a coping saw. Oh ya, old school.
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And after some tweeking I get it to fit pretty good. Still need to cut the rail to proper width. And the two tenons on the bottom mullions I "fixed" by inserting a tenon though the bottom of the rail and I had copious amount of glue on the end and wedged it to the mullion. It filled the mortise and stabilized the mullion. Not shown because I hadn't done it yet and don't have the picture.
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#5,004 ·
That's what I worked on for a decade, old houses. Tried like hell to get away from it but it keeps finding me. But the lessons you learn working in those houses will help you in modern houses. Scribing is 2nd nature to me. I use to do some crazy scribing that might take quite some time to complete. I've had many kitchen installs on crazy wavy floors that people say it looks like it grew out of the floor.

Learing how to install things with no real reference. Nothing is flat, square, straight, plumb, level or true in an old house. Sometimes it's really tough to know where to start. And on top of it if you put something in plumb and square into a crooked house sometimes it just looks wrong. So you also have to know when to disregard the norms of level or plumb.

But I've also learned it takes a lot more effort to get something to work in an older house and sometimes you need more detailed work. Both cost money and people aren't always willing to part with what you need to charge because they think they live in a normal house.
 
#5,010 ·
More windows from hell
Bottom rail came off in pcs. Side stiles were bad enough I replaced them too.
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Sized the bottom rail and glued it up.
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#5,014 ·
I have 2 more windows you can practice on. :p
 
#5,016 ·
I use to work in a shop where I made hundreds of these types of windows. Only I had the proper equipment to do it quickly. MAKA oscillating mortiser. Poitras single end tenoner. Stub spindle cope. The rest of the stuff I have.

Right now I have a router table setup with the 5/16" quarter round profile. I have to make the rabbet below (glass bed) with a couple of saw cuts. I have a square chisel mortiser attachment for my drill press. So making a 1" slot takes 5 plunges of the chisel. The MAKA machine would do it in one pass.

My biggest problem is no stub spindle cope. I can't even find a cutter that's the correct profile it'd have to be custom made. So I have to cut the cope with a coping saw. They don't come out perfect, but they come out pretty good.
 
#5,019 ·
Doesn't really matter, these particular ones seem to be reproductions. Still done well, but made from pine that deteriorated too quickly.

If I had the machinery that I had in the other shop I wouldn't have even bothered to fix these. I would have just remade them.
 
#5,025 ·
Digging a wine cellar.
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