Crafted for my son and designed with his help, what resulted was a desk / workstation for the studio in which he creates his music. Made of oak plywood with solid oak trim, it spans eight feet across, with a desktop depth of almost four feet. The only non-oak portions were the desk work surface, keyboard shelf, and monitor/speaker shelf. These were made of laminated particle board. The only non-wood components used were the rack rails that hold the electronic gear, and the computer keyboard slides.
Because of its large size, it was build as six separate components which, when assembled, combine to make up what you see in the pictures. The whole project took about a month at a reasonable cost of under $900.00. That’s a minimum of two thousand dollars less than would have been needed to buy one of similar size and quality.
Unlike the Dr. Who jewelry box in the last post, this Christmas project made it abundantly clear that it’s not only my hands that are failing. It’s obvious that my body strength is on the way out, as well. Back-in-the-day I used to run 4X8 sheets of plywood through the table saw completely by myself. Building THIS project, I couldn’t even have gotten them to the saw, let alone cut them without help. Ah, what a difference a decade or so makes.
Like a faithful old car, we keep “driving” our aging bodies as long as they are still able to start when we turn the key. And though we chug along life’s highway far below the maximum speed limit, and must stop on the shoulder more frequently for emergency services, we continue our labored journey with optimism… hoping that others will at least acknowledge our earned presence in the slow lane.
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3 comments:
You know Paisano, even with failing hands & body...this is so professional looking...AMAZING! You still got it...age is just a number & we can usually figure ways to help us do what we did before. Although, a bit slower OR a lot slower for me!
My cousin,
Haven't checked in lately as I thought you were on hiatus. Your creations are marvelous and your hands fruitful. I appreciate your thoughts about hands as they are critical to my chosen profession. Thanks for checking in with our Delray Aunt as she misses Uncle E dearly, yet loves the visits from her nephews.
I haven’t forgotten the poem I promised you about your hands. I can feel its first whispers unfurling, but I have to wait until it is born of its own accord, for it to be the best it can be. These 2 beautiful gifts that you crafted with those very hands you have carried all your life, aside from (the gifts) being the physical embodiment of precious and everlasting memories, and aside from being extremely useful, are exquisite artworks and must have taken great creativity, precision, and the utmost care and labour (albeit a labour of love) to create, not to mention, the unique idea of them into which you must have put a tremendous amount of caring thought. How happy they must have made (and still make) your son and your youngest daughter! I love too, how your blog always opens up showing the hands picture.
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