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It's been a while since the last workshop update, but a lot has indeed happened. Â After about six weeks of putting up drywall on the ceiling, I was able to start fancying the place up.
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The walls were OSB (Oriented Strand Board) which is good for structural use. Â You can drive a screw pretty much anywhere and it'll hold reasonably well -- not so with drywall. Â So, to make the place look brighter, decided to paint. Â Well, you can't just paint OSB with water based latex (that's what I like to use for a multitude of reasons) as it will cause the wood chips to swell and pop out of the wall. Â
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What you have to do (and what I have NO pictures of) is skim the wall with drywall compound and scrape any bubbling swelling chips of wood off to make it smooth. Â Then you can paint with water-based latex. Â So, yeah. Â that's what I did. Â I did it a LOT. Â I also did the standard drywall stuff such as taping seams and trying to make the whole workshop look like a place where I'd like to spend hours every day. Â
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Somewhere in there, I built a mobile lumber cart and a rolling tool cart. Â Those are in the picture too. Â
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Notice that there still aren't any big woodworking tools? Â Me too. Â I still have much more to do before that happens. Â This is work from the top down. Â Literally. Â The ceiling is done. Â The walls are done. Â What could be next?
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I can't wait to see. Â I have a vision for this workshop and if I keep it up, I just may get there some day.
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