A WoodWork in Progress

At the beginning of 2021, I completed the build of a large mirror frame. The blog post about that build can be seen here ( https://awoodworkinprogress.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-mirror.html ). Following that work, my wife and I had the big idea that I would be able to build a frame for any mirror that needed one, and even cut large glass mirrors to make smaller ones. It was a grand idea that resulted in me receiving a massive 8ft mirror that probably belonged in a commercial gym, or even a bathroom for a movie theatre. I don't recall what it could have been used for, but I accepted it as a free item from a local Facebook group. It was so large that my wife and I stored it in our living room, against the wall...behind a cabinet. It was simply too large to store it anywhere else, and I was busy working on other projects, so it sat there for 2 years. Finally, in January of 2023, I decided to give the mirror away on the same Facebook 'Buy Nothing' group. Several people accepted t...

  My client had a cold storage room that required improved shelving. What was there were simple wall-mounted shelves that couldn't handle the amount of items that were placed on them. They also didn't provide enough storage space for all the stuff they wanted in that room (bulk food, preserves, spare dishes, coolers, large bins etc.). Much of the shelves were simply planks of particle board that was bridging the space between the other bracketed shelves. They needed a whole new system. Cluttered storage room in need to better shelving Shelves were attached to the walls with anchors (which cannot hold too much weight) and narrow particle boards that would bend under pressure I took photos and measurements of the room. This project gave me an opportunity / excuse to buy a new laser range finder, to easily get accurate measurements of the room. When I took the measurements, the room was full of stuff, which limited my ability to get some measurements (which will come back to haunt...