All,
I’m here to report that I’m actually engaged in trying something new and building a challenge entry. Sadly, you’re reading this message instead of looking at a build log … for the following reasons:
1.) I got into the game kind of late … and between rotating shifts, and trying to write a book for work, and a host of other stuff, I’m runing even further behind than I’d feared I would.
2.) I spent too much on it … while I really DID need a pin nailer for my bridge, and had planned to get one, the fact that I bought it when the kit got here, and the various nails for it, probably disqualifies me right out of the gate. I did save a receipt for $24 and change from Ozark, and managed to rustle up everything else from supplies on hand though, so maybe if we forgive the nailer on the thought that I’d meant to order one last month for a bridge I’m working on I’m not dead in the water yet … but …
3.) In the process of getting started on the very last day possible, I manged to miss changing pin sizes, and managed to nail the whole works and the plans to my workbench. Not too encouraging! (It’s since been freed … now to grind off a bunch of itty bitty nail points…)
So … time permitting, I hope to have something to post over the next week or so, and I mean to complete this thing and post the log just as if the contest were still going. (I harbor no illusions about actually competing… just want to demonstrate that I “also ran” ) Trust me, it wouldn’t have won anyway – I’m just happy to have had the chance to build and learn alongside everyone else… this is the first one of these I’ve tried. Hope that’s ok – really I never harbored any illusions about being on time with this to begin with, but I did want to give it a whirl.
Matthew (OV)
