Since the Dremeling was all I got to last time, today was pegs, holes for pegs, and overall assembly. I broke about ten standard cutting wheels in the process of cutting the dowel to make little pegs, and then discovered to my great joy that I have a heavy-duty cutting wheel, which made the rest of the dowel-cutting much less frustrating. And then I rounded off the ends of all the pegs, and came home to do all the drilling and assembly, since I needed my drill.

Then I came home to do drilling, and in the interests of not getting sawdust all over my apartment, came up with the awesome idea of working outside my window, on the porch roof – there’s about 3 feet of flat surface outside of my windows, and it was a perfectly beautiful day. So I did the peg holes outside, and put all the pegs in – giving myself a really nice blister on my index finger, which I didn’t realize at the time. I’m definitely going to spend more time hanging out on the roof, though – it was pretty great.

And then the big step – assembling the main pieces, which involved some very creative clamping. That’s on my list of things I want, now – small clamps – like, that can span 6-inch widths, so I don’t have to stabilize my all connections with books and such.

The whole rack is now sitting, letting the glue dry, and then next I can sand the heck out of the whole thing so all the joints are smooth. And then I hafta seal it, stain it, and re-seal it, and then I can actually use it! It’s making me pretty happy right now though – it already looks so hugely much better than the 1.0 version that I can’t imagine how much better it’ll be when it’s done.