Remember Thursday the twelveth?

              Ah the joy of the finished project.

Nothing compares with seeing your creation come to fruition. It brings you to a point where you tend to forget all those hours of detail work with the raw metal under the ol' Eco-friendly helical green light bulbs.

You tend to notice the power bill up about 30% when you put a couple of weeks of cutting, grinding, sawing, drilling and welding on your utility tab. Even more if you are of the perfectionist persuasion.
I say that in a friendly sort of way. It's OK to be a perfectionist, you got your pride involved and that's a good thing.

This quickie tool cart project came as a challenge for my self imposed two week in process policy. Yup just two weeks ago I started the working phase of this job. I finished it up last night. It seems funny you miss some little imperfections until the paint dries, like that stubborn little BB that casts a shadow in the evening sunset. You chip it loose and where does it fall? In a corner or crevice! I'm a tellin' ya, it's "Murphy's Law".

It seemed the little details bit my butt all day long on the Thursday the 12th, only to realise there is still a delivery on Friday the 13th, and due date on 9 / 11. Go figure.

Dividerboard Cart in Stainless Steel

Earlier this summer I built a prototype cart on a verbal proposition, "We need something better than the carts we are using now. If you think you can build us one we like we may have a few projects coming up, you might be interested in."






The light bulb in my head lit up! A chance to create my own job? hmm... could be the start of something big in MY life! I had been looking for a new opportunity. To keep it short for now, lets just say I built one, they liked it, but before they committed to the carts, some of those other projects would fill the void. Ok by me, I saw an opportunity to document a project, for this blog. I will be writing how to articles with the pictures on the production end for "Do it Your-selfers" like me.





This is the second cart of 6, and one a month will fit nicely in both our schedules. I will have 6 more of a different style, also delivered at one a month. Remember its not just welding here, also purchasing, cutting, piloting and drilling the components as well, in other words planning ahead of problems that naturally happen.

I'm currently building the second prototype, and will show it off in future entries.