And lonely, and the lure too great. With the plea for articles, I figure even something not quite up to snuff might be OK. So herein is perhaps the start of a multi-part case build. A case for guns. I’ve just started and I’m not sure I’ll finish it or if there will be similar gaps in articles as I continue or if I’ll document whatever I do well enough to write something. But at the very least, this will provide some pretext for random snark, links, and puns for the next couple of hours.
The “collection”
I have a friend – stop laughing, it’s true! – and they had a problem. Guns were taking over table tops, getting in the way. They (hey I’m not assuming xer’s gender, even if xe may or may not be imaginary) needed storage, but “nice” display storage, not hidden away in an opaque steel safe. The first step is to figure out how much storage. Xe sent me this picture from xer yacht that was about to have a tragic boating accident. So we need room for… 8 long guns (I forgot – I mean xe forgot – to lay out the Savage Arms 22LR) and 3 handguns. Huh, the handgun collection looks a bit lean; xe should stock up. And the big 12 gauge is about 49″, so need that + a few inches in height. To the design stage!
Left – my design, right – downloaded from the internet, rough inspiration. I figured I should point out which is which as otherwise you might not be able to tell.
This will be short. I suck at design. I just sort of mulled it over in my mind for a week or two and the sketched the plans on the left out. At the wood store. While buying the wood. It’s based loosely on the plans on the right. So it amounts basically to 2 boxes, one tall (55″) and narrow (11-12″) for the long guns on top and a smaller deeper one (28″ x 20″) for the bottom. I’ll put in the angled glass shelf display for the handguns, but replace the drawers with a cabinet to store ammo and accessories. This stage really brings home my short coming in the planning department. I’m basically going to wing it, build the basic structure and work from there. I can’t help it. It does give me pause in a different area – I just bought some land and am planning to build a house with minimal contracting. I don’t think my winging it style of planning will work for that particular application.
Raw boards: Poplar has this tendency to have these green streaks; not ideal for a natural or tung oil finish.
At the wood store, I jealously eyed the stacks of maple and cherry while I pawed through the poplar. But given the likelihood I’ll mess something up, I’m going with cheap wood. Plus there’s a lot of edge joinery that would have need to happen with maple/cherry since the available boards were a lot narrower. As it is, I’ll still need to do some with the poplar, but not as much. After stacking and un-stacking wood for an hour (Sting’s got nothing on me), searching for the best pieces, I had what I needed for the boxes and rails/stiles for the doors. Most the the shelves will be hidden, so I’ll use (good) plywood with edge banding. I had them joint one edge of each board since I don’t have a jointer so I can just reference off the good edge on the table saw to make good square boards.
Final boards. Upper case on the left, lower on the right.
The wide pieces will be used for the top/long gun box – they are wide enough that I don’t need to do any edge joining. For the bottom, I’ll need to make one edge join, so I used the narrower boards. The raw boards were rough cut by hand down to approximate (over) size to make them easier to handle on the table saw. After the rough cut one needs to square the boards up, making sure the corners are at 90 degrees and the sides are parallel. I made rip cut on the table saw, using the shop generated flat side as a reference. With 2 long sides parallel, they can be used against the table saw fence to generate square cross-cut ends, all resulting in perfectly square boards cut to size. Honest, perfect. Repeat that process with the pieces for the bottom case. The pieces for the bottom case will be edge joined as shown in the image so as to create a piece of wood large enough for the case size. It’s actually pretty amazing how, with a careful choice of faces to make wood grain line up and careful joinery, you can really make it look like one piece of board. And this is where it’s very important to have clean parallel sides from the rip cuts. Once they are glued up and set, I’ll cut a diagonal piece off to form the handgun display case. The top part of the bottom case will be approximately 13″ so the top case will sit on it (fastened with lag bolts in all likely hood).
And that’s as far as I got in a day! Next step is to plane all the boards to a uniform thickness and do the edge joinery on the sides and start dadoes and rabbets to create the boxes. Hopefully I can write up another piece in a week or two – that will mean I’m making progress.
Music link, why not. The “Green” album, sometimes called Woods-4 – seemed appropriate.
You know what you’re problem is, PutridMeat? You’ve gotten so wrapped up in the sugar business that you’ve forgotten the taste of a real First!
I… Don’t even know what this means.
Which actually makes it more brilliant!
Fan-fucking-tastic article, PM!
I fucking hate finishing poplar, pine and any of those other trees that require that you know what you are doing! However, gel stain helps.
Looking forward to the rest of the build!
Which model? I have a Mk II, which the guys at the gun shop had never heard of when I went to get scope rings fitted.
Mark II FXP
That design on the right makes my brain hurt.
*continues*
I have a friend – stop laughing, it’s true! – and they had a problem.
Let me guess…. it was you that had the problem?
I guess claiming to have a friend gave the whole gig away? Sigh.
Despite my handle I don’t actually own a gun or know anything about them. If I did own a gun, I would want it to be that revolver in the middle of the first picture. It’s purty.
You don’t own any guns?
Guilty as charged.
L frame S&W ?
K frame .22 WMR
My dad bought it at the PX at Camp Pendleton in 1959. Still has the original box and wrap. I think it’s been fired…. 20 times?
I think I would want something bigger than .22. Told you I know nothing about guns.
I can’t even with this.
That tune takes on an even more eerie feel when you learn the singer died months later. Good tune. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, and good luck with your wood.
Also, kudos on the alt-text
Is that a ban-era Bushmaster Dissapator?
I don’t actually know. It is a Bushmaster though. I bought it in 2000 in, of all places, Maryland when I lived there for about a year. I’ve been considering getting a new-fangled fancy AR platform, but I get out to shoot so rarely these days…
I’m considering a Brownell’s BRN16a1 replica. It’s just a couple of hundred too pricy. I prolly oughta just spring for it. It’s appealing to look at, uses common and modern ammo and the price will be forgotten long before the novelty wears off. ‘Specially what with the crazy inflation all over the place. Fuggit, I’m going to try and make a deal this weekend.
Moynihan detailed his misadventures in Ukraine in yesterday’s TFC. Well worth a listen. Apparently, it’s a shitty situation with no good answers, and a lot of good people (and a lot of Russians) are going to die.
Sizzling hot take, I know. But that’s my depressing takeaway, not Moynihan’s. He recounts a lot of remarkable and affecting experiences traveling among Ukraine’s defenders and refugees.
Their podcast has been more enjoyable since Trump left office. They’re still obviously pulling punches against the respectable establishment, but now there’s no lightning rod drawing off all the really heated bolts.
Link?
Linked here
Looking forward to seeing the finished case.
You do good work Putrid.
Looks Great!
In the vein of working your wood…
Just remember that a porn addict is one pop-up away from a relapse.
How can you write an article about working your wood?
Aren’t you blind by now?
Bowl of corn flakes every day.
I thought it’s Graham crackers what cures that problem
Fuck. You might be right. I get all those Progressive-era crusaders confused.
I’d be worried about getting the hairy palms caught in the saw blade.
I’ve never considered building my own box.
Now that I think about it, a customized, artisanal box might open up new horizons.
Working wood.
https://archive.ph/4jtQV/722b87753b8bb8d7fe896b387c5e0040c319da21.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/cXu0P/afa7eae52344b76495ba8b85269df324f1f2f8c8.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/kf75G/29c57165f573668499bc9bfa6c47ac422fa62da2.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/YNrI6/2ed5e574934b03c6a45c3d465f89d18bd8ca2fd6.webp
NSFW.
Would
About 50 years ago I lived in NJ in an apartment, had a glass fronted gun cabinet. Came home one Sunday afternoon to find my apartment burglarized, 2 35mm cameras, a pair of GI gloves and a handful of change missing. Glass on gun cabinet had been chipped but no entry.
I had a numbered parking spot, visible from my kitchen window, maybe the thieves’ look out saw me drive in and ran out the front door. I haven’t had a glass display case since then.
Your project is way beyond my limited skills but I admire you and the others that can transform a pile of wood into a piece of art. Good start, PM.
“About 50 years ago I lived in NJ in an apartment”
You old.
Keep on rocking 4×20!
Working wood X10Kv,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FuGzyjWskNHL4EGfA
That is cool; did you route it out?
Extremely high voltage, not HE high but plasma melt your ass high,
Minidiscs for golf, check the fractals, really nice!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/31stsz4ELommmwcp6
That is fucking cool!
You know Yusef, you and Putrid Meat, McGinty and some others really know how to hurt an old man.
Your stuff is pure $, mine is standing on giants like you Sir!
I heard today that the local school district now offers counseling for those students who think they may be other than “the gender assigned them at birth.” Out of 12,000 students in the district, 20 have sought counseling. 17 of the 20 are males who think they may be female. Anyone know if the vast majority of gender issues are boys thinking they are girls instead of vice versa? If so, why is it?
Yes, that ratio sounds right. I have my theories, but they’re not charitable to anybody involved.
https://youtu.be/WDswiT87oo8
My completely uneducated opinion is that the discrepancy is due to encouraging gay/bi/effeminate-but-straight boys that they are trans instead of letting them figure things out on their own.
I’d encourage any youngster interested in the mental health field to focus on the sex/gender issues. I think they will have no shortage of patients in the future.
I would say it’s a long tail issue for boys… OTOH the major complaint about girls transitioning is clustering due to peer pressure.
I think it’s just that boys are superior in every way, even better at being trans than chicks. And since trans chicks are in fact actually chicks, boys are better girls than girls. It really is the century of men, much like every other century. Who knew progressives would deliver this stunning, insurmountable win for men, as if we needed another. But we’re gracious in victory, so we’ll take it.
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X2 ??
Damn it you guys, my lights just turned on and then off.
That is my completely uneducated opinion as well. I would go further and predict that most of not of all of the 20 – boys and girls – are in fact gay but gay is out of favor now, while pretending to be a “straight” person of the opposite sex is the new hotness.
Is there a decent estimate for the ratio of male:female homosexuals? I’ve always uncritically assumed it’s around 1:1. Is it really as lopsided (17:3) as this anecdotal example?
I doubt it. And in fact, I was also under the impression that there was a tsunami of girls claiming to be “trans”; more than the other way round. But I have zero contact with that age group so I could be wrong.
I have noted online that there are quite a few parents who would rather their children be trans than gay. I don’t even know what kind of twisted mind you have to have to wish that.
It’s all just really messed up and I hope people start waking the fuck up and stop destroying these kids’ lives. Let them be kids and let them figure it out. Listen to them, let them know whatever they decide is fine, but the encouraging and treatments on children is fucking sick.
hm, that’s actually pretty interesting. A lot of the social contagion work from people like Abigail Shrier is about girls, and I know the number there (of girls transitioning) has been some incredible rise in percentages in the last ten years or so.
But I wonder, if those numbers aren’t just a weird fluke… maybe it’s changing because the high-profile trans are almost all MtF. Rachel Levine is “Woman of the Year” but is there a single FTM heralded anywhere? for anything? I can’t even think of one. And that’s got to play into it somewhere. why is a girl going to become a boy, if boys-becoming-girls are the ones who get famous.
The other thing happening I’ve seen on the fringes is that ‘non-binary’ seems to be changing into the preferred teen girl gender, so that could be where they’re going instead. All the benefits of being special with none of the medical interventions.
Ellen Page chopped her breasts off and pretty much killed her career.
Oh yes, I forgot her. I guess she got her fifteen minutes as Elliot, so there’s one.
Katy Herzog has made the observation young lesbians are disappearing. Not because they don’t exist but because they are being told they are really trans. She isn’t buying it and believes there is quite a bit of social contagion.
I’m going to generalize here, but women are more likely to reproduce in packs and men are more likely to reproduce by standing out. You can’t beat evolution if you’ve been given testicles or ovaries, regardless of how much or little testosterone or estrogen was present in your environment when you were in utero.
I am going to go out on a limb and, with nothing other than anecdotal observation, say that the girls-to-boys outnumber the boys-to-girls.
I believe this is because girls are just not allowed to be tomboys or even just like boy things. No. They MUST be trans.
IMO, girls do this for entirely different reasons from boys (for whom I believe a large part is a fetish–see “autogynephilia”). Maybe the girls don’t want attention. Maybe they’re embarrassed growing boobs. Maybe puberty is fucking with their heads. Maybe they were assaulted. They DON’T know who they are yet, firmly enough to say “No, I’m not a boy. I just like boy stuff; leave me alone.”
But there are a lot of young women DEtransitioning and the thing they regret most is the loss of their voice. They’re stuck with deep voices.
So we had some friends when we were in Houston 2015-16, lesbian couple with a definite tomboy/butch partner. Thinking about it because I asked my wife whatever happened to them and that part of the duo just happened to have recently received tenure at a major state U. I liked them and their kid, they were great people. I think one of the worst things about the takeover by the trans-movement is that 1-3% of the population who were able to embody both their sex and their gender in opposition. She was both the “masculine” side of the relationship and female, and I respected that about her. I forget the woman at Yale who wrote the book on this, but she was also a great embodiment of this.
Why? Cuz getting fucked doesn’t take as much effort as doing the fucking.
Did the quake affect you much?
Felt it for sure. No damage to my place, though.
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Huzzah!
Bonzai!
Ten thousand plants?
Also; that’s what the cowgirl position is for. A nice, relaxing evening of fucking.
Big ol’ earthquake last night. Haven’t felt on that big since 2011. Check out where the epicenter was and, of course, off the coast of Fukushima.
Time to shut down more reactors in Germany.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2022/03/audit-of-oregons-mortgage-interest-deduction-chastises-tax-policy-as-inequitable-and-regressive-benefitting-wealthy-homeowners.html
“Audit” my ass. Once again the state is determined to prove that racism is institutional and the top politicians are uniformly racists. Good work on that front, they’re right about that.
Fine. Get rid of the deduction for everyone.
Better yet, get rid of the top politicians and don’t replace them.
Politician ? makes my skin crawl. In no area of your personal life would you accept the absurd evasions that these people give. Not a fan of having US troops en masse at the Mexican border, but at least Tucker is saying something concrete. This Salazar chick is exactly the type of Republican that keeps more people from joining the GOP in order to fight the insane woke mob.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxnyA_8RI0&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
supplying arms to Ukraine from the US government, in any form = makes us a co-belligerent. Period.
We’re gotten away with minor wars in distant lands where the opponent can’t strike at us in any meaningful way, and forgotten what are acts of war. In the past, at least we used the spooks and third parties to have a fig leaf of deniability. Hell, whether the Lusitania had arms in its cargo holds was a big to do (and it did) because that made it a lawful target, not just a massacre of civilians. Not that the propaganda was any different.
normal wednesday zoom appears to be done.
un-mormal zoom commences
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83576232311?pwd=ZGNhS0R3WjhXQ1RpVWtoOXdBVDBEdz09
Un-moral?
The Importance of Being Earnest
https://mobile.twitter.com/MKUltraMoney/status/1502888085679394816?cxt=HHwWgMCywYqwqtspAAAA
I…uh…
But where are the REST of your guns?
Boating accident.
House of cards starts collapsing.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/boston-blm-activist-and-husband-indicted-on-federal-fraud-charges/
They’ve out-lived their usefullness to the party machine. Time to dump ’em.
Like flair, 10% to the big guy is a minimum.
“After stacking and un-stacking wood for an hour (Sting’s got nothing on me)…”
Am I the only one that noticed the pun?
Well done. Top drawer.
Well, since it’s 3 am.
No mention of the street value of the pickle.
Man found with drugs, pickle in vehicle
Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SX9tVVvLb2I
Genius.
I knew what that was before I clicked, pickle-fucker.
Better ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0hg4_JH0I
Looking forward to the build.
I’m going to be late to the Irish pub for their St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast buffet. They open at 5:30 AM, with legal booze sales starting at 6 AM. In the Live Free or Die state, alcohol sales are prohibited between 1 AM and 6 AM because LIVE FREE OR DIE!
Oh well. Time for a shower and then to head up to the pub.
Mornin’
Mornin’
https://6abc.com/homeowner-shoots-trespasser-west-philadelphia-fatal-shooting-brick-into-window/11658261/
Good shoot.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/03/16/man-shot-during-fight-pick-pocketed-as-he-lay-dying-on-hunting-park-street-police/
That’s some cold shit right there.
I look forward to the grittier and more realistic It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia now that the cast is too old for the shenanigans. It’s Always Bleak in Philadelphia ought to cover it and they only have to change one word.
Well, he wouldn’t need a gun or money, where he was headed. A good gun is a terrible thing to waste.
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Very cool!!
I admire woodworking. I have no talent for it myself, but I do appreciate a well-constructed piece.
Yale students riot over free speech at a free speech event.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10622005/Police-called-deal-liberal-protesters-closed-Yale-Law-FREE-SPEECH-debate.html
It was supposed to be a debate between conservative Waggoner and Progressive Miller.
These people are high on crack.
Pull the plug on Yale; it’s done.
“I’m not signing a letter full of lies.”
Thurston Howell III must be spinning in his grave. But seriously, were these actually law students? Not good…
Ivy League law students, fast-tracked into various non-profit and civil service sinecures. And it’s such a wonder, the mess we’re in…
No doubt, just imagine getting a judge with the kind of attitudes expressed there or a constitutional judge interpreting law. Those idiots are going to be in powerful positions as soon as they graduate, it is Yale after all.
The professors are worse. When I was helping put together events for FedSoc at my law school, we had to be really choosy about who we invited from the law school staff. The usual formula was student moderator + hired in national speaker + one of the law profs, and we’d do a moderated panel on the topic. Some profs made it their mission to sabotage the panel. We had one who got up there, ranted about right wing extremists for 5 minutes of their thirty minute speaking slot, and stormed out.
I love you just a little more, Tea-cups.
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, HE (goodness! Are you up “already” or “still”?), Sean, DEG, and homey!
That reminds me – I need to make a point of steering well clear of the U of Dayton “ghetto” on my way home from my hair appointment this afternoon… ? ? ☘
Morning.
Good morning, U! (Or, if you prefer, the traditional greeting above.) WFH day today?
Thankfully today is a telecommute day.
Last night went only until 10 pm, as fewer things broke.
I am tired.
It’s been a long week.
Ugh! I gather this is the same after-hours project that went horribly wrong on Tuesday?
yes.
And the same one with two more installments nest week (for the production servers this time)
“fewer things broke”
One fine day you will get to zero.
Never gonna happen.
We’re talking about computers here.
Morning as well.
Coffee?
Coffee indeed. Mornin’, everyone.
::raises battered travel mug::
Mornin’
I just finished eating breakfast. The buffet was good. I got the second to last bar seat. Alcohol sales had just started when I got here. A tall Irish cofveve to stsrt. I’m on Smithwick’s now. The live music is supposed to start soon.
Posting from my phone is a pain in the ass.
Avoiding the student ghetto might be a good idea.
Yeah, the UD ghetto gets…boisterous at the drop of a hat, even on ordinary days. One thing in our favor – the NCAA’s “First Four” March Madness games were played here, but UD didn’t get in, so no excuse to party from that.
*waves*
Crazy morning at work.
🙁
Mine have been surprisingly easy since I stopped giving a shit, freeing even!
Happy Amateur Night, everybody!
Heh. Back in my drinking days I made sure to stay home on St. Paddy’s day. Normies don’t know how to drive drunk.
I’m gonna have to chance it – I may be taking some comp time to sneak out to the range this afternoon.
Performance review / compensation went swimmingly. As promised,.virtual drinks for all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZK_Q213-Ao
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Excellent
Excelcior!
I think it might be woke “Charmed” on the TV at the pub.
Manchester Fire are busy. Trucks with lights flashing went hauling ass down the street.
Global warming boogaloo: it’s not just CO2.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/03/16/CH4-responsible-80-recent-atmospheric-methane-growth/1481647467272/
“CH4 responsible for more than 80% of recent atmospheric methane growth”
Technically correct, it’s actually 100%.
Well that’s the dumbest headline that I’ll read today. Thank you for your service, Patzie!
Nice contribution as always! I only wish that I had the time, space and money to set up what you have garnered. I had to learn all of the practical skills on my own. Dad wasn’t much for getting his hands dirty.
I always overthink the simplest tasks. Just a doubting Thomas, I suppose.
People like you and me are necessary, Festus, otherwise who would go to galleries to admire and buy the art of others. Cooks need someone to eat their creations, it’s left up to us.
Have I told you how much that I admire you, 4×20? It’s been awhile.