Forms!

Today was a father-son day, which meant this morning Claire left Karl and I to hang out till after lunch time. He's a happy baby so he played on the main floor of the house while I worked in the garage (with the door open of course). By "play" I mean he went back and forth from reading books and watching what I was doing. I felt a little bit like Silas Marner, except I didn't tie him up with a ribbon.

After lunchtime I got to sit in rush hour traffic since I had to deliver the papasan chair we sold yesterday. I don't know how you people that have to commute do it without going nuts.

During Claire's voice lessons, we were supposed to have a babysitter, but she was a no-show, so I got to hang out with my little buddy some more, so there was very little progress today. I still have something to show for it tho: here are the completed main forms in a dry fit!

I still have 6 forms to do, the end forms are small and tapered a lot so it's finer work. It'll probably take all day tomorrow to get the forms all finished and attached.

Since I finally have all the forms spaced out, I knew where I could connect to my supports without hitting any of them, so I started to make dowel pins like this one below.
I found a lot of problems with this. First, it's way more work than zipping in a screw. It also makes a big mess to bore out a 1/2 inch hole. Finding the exact center of a 2x4 with a drill bit is not super easy, since they aren't exactly 3.5 inches, and this needs to be able to flip over. So this was the only one I made.