[Shop-talk] At the risk of bringing up something shop-related...

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

Wow!  Great message.  Impressed with the bunkbed in particular.  that
looks really well done.

And you've got some kickass friends there... My free deals aren't
anywhere near as good.  :-)

Mark

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:35 AM, John Miller <jem at milleredp.com> wrote:
> ...having access to a Shopbot CNC router can be dangerous to one's sanity.
>
> First the (7yo) daughter suggests that, well, she'd like to do sleepovers
> but that really means she needs more room and a bunk bed might be a good
> idea.  Mommy agrees so Daddy's sent off to make sawdust:
>
> http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/bunkbed.jpg
>
> Along the way, Daddy concludes that since he's already fallen off the deep
> end building a five-drawer chest he may as well do some cabinets to fill the
> grubbily underutilized space under his workbench:
>
> http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/shopcabs.jpg
>
> And, the old saying goes that things happen in threes, at least over the
> last week free stuff happened that way, first was a Systech network
> serial-port server from a friend cleaning out his shelves, then came the '86
> Celica (turns out to need a fuel pump, so not truly free...) and today I
> picked up a clean but quite old 10x36 Logan lathe from a fellow local Lion
> who, after a couple hours of chat about his past career, turned out to have
> been (as nearly as I can peg it) my older (now-deceased) brother's junior
> high school metal shop teacher nearly fifty years ago.
>
> John.
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