Day Five-eighty-seven: filling a gap

We'll provide a real update later but this was a fun little project. If you looked really closely at the pictures of the sink we're installing the garage you may have noticed that the two pieces of trim around the countertop didn't fit perfectly. Despite being mitered to 45 degrees, the tile top wasn't completely square and pushed the top of the trim out a bit. We probably could have used wood filler but that's rarely the right color and certainly not the right texture.

We figured out that we needed a wedge that was 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 square inches and 1/8 inches wide at the top. Our first thought was to cut a cube out of a piece of 1x6 pine. Unfortunately that left us with a 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 3/4 inch block that was pretty hard to work with.

So we thought about making a tube of wood that was 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 x whatever. We cut about 6 inches off of a standard 2x2 and then shaved off two of the long sides to make them 1 1/8 like so:

Next we had to slice off a bit at the right angle. We started small with 7.5 degrees but even that was too wide, so we went down to 6 degrees.

That turned out to be perfect. Along with a little filler at the bottom of the gap we were able to plug the hole.

Once we put the same three coats of Bona Mega to waterproof this section and add some caulk the whole thing will be ready for its sink.