The Big Think

So yesterday I spent another 4 hours (total time: 70 hours) on the ent. cent. I didn’t do much but cut the tops to final length and sand, sand, sand. If you’ve ever wonder why the iPod was invented, it was so woodworkers could stand for three hours in one place while sanding.

Speaking of sanding, I always wear earmuffs and a face shield, but I can’t use the inexpensive filter that I bought several years ago. It’s really uncomfortable and since I have a beard, it has small gaps around my face that let the dust in anyway. I’ve been considering the purchase of a much more expensive and effective dust hood but can’t quite bring myself to pull the trigger on it. After all, there are better things to spend the money on (like, say, nothing at all), but I figure that I can spend a few hundred dollars on this now, or several tens of thousands of dollars later on when I get chemo for the lung cancer that’s brought on by inhaling fine wood dust for a few decades. Or maybe the Hodgkin’s disease. Oh joy. (cough, cough). I do my best to keep the exposure to a minimum by sanding outside with the wind behind me, but there’s only so much I can do.

Yeah, yeah. I’ll probably just buy the stupid thing. It’s a new product and I’m waiting for the first round of reviews to hit. Dropping almost four Benjamin’s on a ventilated face shield isn’t my idea of fun, but neither is an arm full of bleomycin.

Back to the shop. Today’s I start on the face frames. Then more sanding…