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These forums have been quiet since just before Father's Day. Everybody isn't hiding behind a sofa to jump out and surprise anyone, are they?

Did I just give it away?

SURPRISE!!!

I've been busy working on version 3.0 of my home theater. I finally got "approval" to build a dedicated room, so all of my work last year gets to be redone. I just started drywalling last night, and tonight I hope to finish all of the ceilings, then on to the walls, and then the fun part... Mudding and taping!!!!

Vacations?

I'm getting ready for a week at the beach starting Mon., my guess is vacations also.

I for one, hope it stays quiet for the next few weeks. If I come back to 4 weeks worth of posts it'll take another 4 weeks just to catch up!

Yeah, it's been kinda slim pickins around here. Summer's here and everybody is busy doin' stuff.

I transfered to another department at work and now I have less time for the boards.... I knew it would be more work, so it'll be my own damn fault when the board withdrawal sets in.

Speaking of stuff we're all doing... my latest summer project is finally building a real workbench/cabinets in the garage workshop... since we moved in, there's been a ramshackle upper... uh "cabinet" (more on this later) and a piece of 18" deep countertop acting as a work table. First thing I hated about the garage... last thing I'm fixing.

So this afternoon was slow for work (coming up to the long weekend and all) so I started demolition and rebuilding the new cabinets. Demolition was... interesting... removed the pegboard from the walls carefully to reuse it (all that track-wall stuff be damned - pegs work and I have a ton of them already)... and as I removed one piece, the upper ramshackle cabinet fell until it hit some framing. Apparently I removed a load-bearing piece of pegboard.

Building the cabinets with 2x4 framing and 3/4" BCX ply (yes, I'm cheap and yes it's a garage) where it's hidden and sanded maple ply where it's visible.

Really racking my brain trying to come up with an inexpensive way of covering the countertops. I could do arborite... but it'd be 2 sheets to do them... which would be $200 or so if I remember correctly. Thought about just painting them like the cabinet faces, then urethaning the crap out of them... but again, that'd be expensive... thought about tiling them... but that's a bit labour intensive... anyone else got any ideas? I'm also considering hitting a cabinet place and see if they have any unusable countertops that I can cut down... see what I can find.

Bren R.