My wife wants a new headboard, after we got rid of our traditional mattress in favor of an adjustable one (because we are old…make fun all you want, I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night since it was set up a month ago). As a result the ambling pace of the knife station build had to be accelerated significantly and so two weekends of focused work brought the project to an end. The final steps were fun ones—getting the fire extinguisher in place, adding a bottom shelf, creating a grommet for the power cords, attaching the aluminum sheet to the wall, adding a magnetic bar for accessories and tools, and hanging the belt storage racks.
Here is a weird thing—after having two shops for more than twenty years I have never installed a fire extinguisher. They usually lived on a shelf, got buried by stuff, and then expired. But, a few years ago, I actually had to use one in the kitchen in my parent’s old house. My Dad was making cinnamon rolls and something caught on fire. They tried to fan out the fire and it only spread. When the fire alarm went off, I ran into the kitchen, the oven belching flames like a dragon, grabbed the fire extinguisher from other the countertop, and put out the fire. It was a huge mess, but the house didn’t burn down. Part of the mess was made from fishing the fire extinguisher out from under the sink. I decided, instead, to put it on the wall at eye level to make it virtually impossible to miss. Hopefully it will stay there until it expires, watchful but unused.
It has been an interesting project. I am still hearing the call of wanting to make at least a couple of knives. I still haven’t tried. But I have the shop space for it. Never thought it worth banging my head into a wall with a 4″ grinder.
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