Day Seven-thirteen

With the kitchen cabinets done, you may be asking, "What could they be up to now?" We wondered the same thing as we stared at this pile of scrap wood. Is there a project hiding in there?

That pile is a jumble of oak, solid pine, plywood pine, and poplar. We seemed to have the most poplar so went with it. We started by cutting 16 equal pieces on the table saw. Each one is 5x2 inches and 3/4 inches thick.

The size is a little easier to see when they're laid out.

We doubled them up with some Elmer's wood glue, making each piece 5x2x1.5. This is two pairs in the clamp. Trying to economize on the use of clamps.

Here are another two pairs (with an extra piece to absorb the brunt of the clamp) in a new corner clamp that will be useful in future projects to keep things at 90 degrees.

This is another new corner clamp. You can see that we've not only paired off four pieces but glued them together at one end.

Here's a finished version. We might put a small finishing nail through the end to keep the whole thing together, but what are we going to do with four L-shaped pieces? Don't you love a good mystery?