Turns out you can get it from a lot of things, and, if you’re me, you can get compound carpal tunnel — throughout wrists, fingers, up the arm and the elbow and some in the shoulders. Cripes. But I explained everything I’d managed to do in the course of screwing up muscles/joints so thoroughly, and I’m going on and on about the lumber rack and the cabinet for tools…
Nurse: *puzzled* Where was your husband during all this?
Me: Being a smart man and staying the hell out of my workshop.
Hah.
But, it was worth it! Did my very first dado… okay, not quite so great a dado. Sigh. Plywood is supposed to be 23/32″ (just shy of 3/4″), not 11/16″, people! And I went through all that effort to find a good router bit that’s 23/32″, and those aren’t cheap. Grrrrr. I ended up doing the rest with a 1/4″ router bit, and having to run several times over it, to get the right width. But I think the final product doesn’t look too bad, considering this was my First Wall-hung Cabinet-shelf Evah.
I still need to build doors for it, though. Working on that… well, more like, “actually listening to the doctor’s advice to wait three weeks before playing with power tools.” Sometimes the pads of my right-hand thumb and index finger are numb, still, so I figure… hrm, maybe the sports medicine doctor knew what he was talking about… Although I didn’t actually stop there (pre-trip) — I went ahead and built a storage rack, too.
Oh! And the baby birds all eventually flew away… although some of them just wanted to sit by the open garage door and think about it. More pictures over in the flickr account.
Tagged: carpentry, wild kingdom, workshop