I love little projects that I can complete in a short amount of time, and building picture frames is just that kind of project. My friend, Laura, asked if I'd build some frames for 2 of her paintings of her dogs. I'm going to post one of those pictures so it will appear as the first photo on the blog, so when I post this on Facebook that will be the photo displayed with the blog. You'll understand why I don't want these other photos posted as you read on. First, here's one of her framed paintings.
I kind of like this frame because I used some tongue and groove flooring we have leftover and instead of removing the groove part, I used it to slide the hardboard into. I'd never done this before so it was fun doing something new.
The other frames I made were also made out of tongue and groove flooring but I cut off the tongues and grooves and the hardboard was mounted from the back. That made for a much deeper profile though.
Now here's where you should stop reading if you don't want to be grossed out. I don't use my bandsaw very often and sometimes mice build nests inside. I should have opened it before I used it.
I turned it on and heard a thump and then had a bit of "matter" fall onto the deck of the saw. I just knew I'd killed a mouse. I hated to open the door and was tempted to continue on and cut the trim I needed because the saw was running just fine. I couldn't do that though. I dreaded opening it. It wasn't a mouse, though it was still very disturbing.
I'm so sorry, snake. Next time I'll open the door first.
I kind of like this frame because I used some tongue and groove flooring we have leftover and instead of removing the groove part, I used it to slide the hardboard into. I'd never done this before so it was fun doing something new.
The other frames I made were also made out of tongue and groove flooring but I cut off the tongues and grooves and the hardboard was mounted from the back. That made for a much deeper profile though.
Now here's where you should stop reading if you don't want to be grossed out. I don't use my bandsaw very often and sometimes mice build nests inside. I should have opened it before I used it.
I turned it on and heard a thump and then had a bit of "matter" fall onto the deck of the saw. I just knew I'd killed a mouse. I hated to open the door and was tempted to continue on and cut the trim I needed because the saw was running just fine. I couldn't do that though. I dreaded opening it. It wasn't a mouse, though it was still very disturbing.
I'm so sorry, snake. Next time I'll open the door first.
Ewwwwwww, I hate snakes!!!!!!!!!
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