Kind of Strange

Copious amounts of tools purchased for class via Otto Frei! I somehow managed to not buy all of the not-on-the-list tools that I wanted rather than needed. I claim this as a victory!

Unfortunately the tools I did purchase are being shipped directly to the Revere Academy, so I won’t be able to play with them until I get down there. Explaining the amount of hammers in my luggage was a less than desirable scenario though, so straight to the school they go! I do appreciate that Otto Frei offers that option with no additional fee, at any rate.

So a while back I decided that I was going to get rid of my dining room table.  I love that table.  It’s a fantastic (and disturbingly heavy) slate top table full of rich oranges, reds and browns. 

Unfortunately the only thing I ever really used the table for was as a place to make things on.  This was not particularly good for the life of said fantastic table.  Once I drilled a very small divet into it when I misjudged the consistancy of a piece of wood I was working with.  That was when I knew the table needed to go and a real workbench needed to come in. 

Enter my new (used) workbench:

The top was a bit beat up and peeling, so I scraped it down, sanded it, cleaned it up and then added the new workbench top constructed by my partner on top of the existing surface.  Now to start using it…

The precioussss has been acquired.  Earnings from SakuraCon have been transformed into a Foredom 2230  setup.  Of course I’ve had absolutely no time to play with it just yet, but hopefully soon.  My Dremel, it weeps with the knowledge that its days are numbered.