Ya wanna go get hiiiiggghhh?

With a 3 day weekend off work, I needed a haircut and to take care of some new fish I ordered online that fedex dropped off mid-morning in 20 deg weather.  So I called it a day at lunch and took care of business.  Beings that only lasted me about 2 hours, I took advantage of the time for some basement tinkering.

Prepping for assembling the bar tops I glued together the rows in strips of two or 3 for the long and short ends.  Not working on the middle leg just yet as I plan to get the ends done and cut, then I’ll sit them on top of the middle section to line up all the joints for marking and cutting.

After swapping out pieces of wood for less warps and cleaner joints and getting wood glue all over my fingers I decided I needed to sample the stain I bought last week.  I grabbed a scrap piece of flooring, the scrap from the filler piece I put between the back and side wall cabinets, and a rag.  I was pretty happy with the match to the vinyl ‘cheat sheets’ I used on the front, and just love the overall coloring the stain gives the Oak.  Comparison pics below.

While grabbing the glue at lowes I wandered over to the glass isle.  They can get special order frosted and colored lexan.  I asked the guy if they had actual samples on hand to look at and he said no, he also said that most of them are just clear lexan with a tint backing… bummer.  But, now I think what I’ll do for the light boxes is order up some true milk white plastic and back it with tint.

Speaking of tint, below are pics of the samples I ordered.  There is a translucent and an opaque.  I think translucent will be the way to go as the colors are a lot richer.  I just wish it came in a green/tan instead of blue/tan… I shall flex my google-fu and find what I’m looking for I’m sure.

As they say, pics or it didnt happen!