Slow Progress... But Progress...

Last nights adventure to Home Depot, a place I try to avoid at any cost, got me 2 beautiful doors and its associate hardware, hinges and handles. More brainstorming about further steps on improving the quality of the studio, what kind of cabinets to build and the looks of things. I'm totally proud of my modern-look door-jamb action. Unfortunately Victors table-saw burned out yesterday... overworked and maybe it's just the way things go at my house. So today we had to go and drop it of at Truitt & White where they also do tool-repair... will see later what the damage is. We combined that outing with picking up more hardware and stuff, the coolest weather-stripping for the bottom of the door into the garage, or now storage-room, it is a gadget that is recessed into the bottom of the door and when the door closes it drops down a strip that will seal to the floor... love it!!!

The door-jam magic during the process of installation...


We also got the router-bit to cut the slot for the new weather-strip hardware for the closet-doors, can't remember what they're called, not the by-fold but sliding doors, and 2 vent screens for the utility-closet. A total of 183.65...
Then it was time for some lunch, we stopped at the Emeryville Public Market and had some super-burritos... enough for dinner too!!! Next on the list was Plywood and Lumber Sales heaven for wood-lovers, hell for tree-huggers, a place filled with exotic woods from all over the world, we picked up a block of wood, maybe 4 inches thick by about 18 high and 12 wide... it took booth hands to grab it and I barely got it off the ground... but that was not what we were looking for, I was in business for some Marine-grade plywood, that is a special plywood with lots of layers and glued tight with no voids, the finish is Finish Birch and it is not cheap... a 4 by 8 sheet of half inch and a 4 by 8 of three-quarter inch cost me 224 dollar and 3 cents... but what the hell, it is gonna look really cool when the half inch one is installed as a base-board with a 45° bevel and the three-quarter inch will be the cap on top of the wall and window-sill.
back home with the costly goods and then back to work... by three we where working on getting the weather-strip installed... Victor says, that only houses in Piedmont have weather-strips like that... well maybe I'm the first on the block of having such a fancy thing in my door... and probably nobody will ever notice or even see it... what a fool I am!!!