Winding Down

 

Sometime earlier this spring while I was chest deep in the altar build project, my wife came home with a limited edition print that someone had given her and asked me if I could frame it. Around the same time frame, no pun intended, as an officer in a Catholic fraternal organization I was sent the picture on the left of newly elected Pope Leo XIV. For reasons too lengthy to get into, the organization can't utilize the picture and so my wife adopted it and added it to the framing list. 

I dislike doing such projects when the weather is great because there tends to be a lot of spare time in-between steps such as waiting for glue to dry or coats of paint to dry. So with most of my furniture list completed, I thought now was the time to squeeze this project in. Using more scraps and some router bits from my newly installed wall mount case, I quickly had the frames made, glued up and drying in clamps. 

Waiting ensued.

The next day I cut reinforcement slots for splines in the corners and glued in the splines.

Waiting ensued.

I sanded both frames and then touched up a couple spots.

Waiting ensued.

I applied a coat of primer.

Waiting ensued.

I applied a coat of matte black paint.

Waiting ensued.

I applied a second coat of matte black paint.

Waiting ensued.

I applied a coat of gloss black paint.

Waiting ensued.

I cut some protective panes out of leftover plexiglass and installed them along with the print/pictures and secured the hanging apparatus to the back side. All done but meanwhile the better part of another week has disappeared. I guess that is why I waited until the end of the "season" to do this one.

So I have now cleaned off the top of my workbench for perhaps the last time until spring. I have a couple more things I might still get done in the garage but at this point, I have no furniture building plans, at least until spring. My wife has declared she would like me to make a dresser and two nightstands for our bedrooms to replace the ones I bought when I got my first post college apartment, the last vestiges of my bachelor life that still remain.