even yet still more walls
got some more framing done today. i would have done more, but i ran out of 2x4's after home depot closed. here are some pics of how the studio looks now:
looking towards the vocal booth window...
looking toward the front left of the main room...
looking from inside the vocal both toward the console area...
looking from the vocal both through where the doorway will go to the back of the studio...
the more astute viewer might notice that a couple of the frames are missing their topmost plates and in fact are not yet attached. the more astute viewer might also notice that the front left portion of the main room is missing a short segment of framing. this all comes back to the continuing saga i started writing about yesterday regarding my attempts to do bevel rip cuts through 2x4s.
i got up bright and early this morning to go to home depot. lately, this is how every day of my life begins. anyway, i got there around 7:40 but then realized that on sundays they don't open until 8. so i killed 20 minutes then came back. time: 8:07. i decided to go ahead and get the ridgid 14" band saw i had been eyeing down yesterday. it's a tad expensive and maybe a bit of overkill, but at this point i don't really care. i just want a damn saw that can do 4" cuts at an angle and without choking. is that really so much to ask?
anyway, i look around and can't find any boxes for the saw i want. so i flag down one of the guys who works there and ask him if he can get one for me. he leaves and comes back 10 minutes later to inform me that the computer says they have 3 in stock, he just needs to locate them. he leaves and comes back 10 minutes later to inform me he's still looking for them. he leaves and comes back 10 minutes later to tell me the same thing again. apparently the computer isn't telling him what pallet the saws are on, so he has to get the forklift, look fora pallet that has gigantic ridgid boxes on it, drop it down, find that it's the wrong thing, put it back up, go to the next one, drop it down, ad nauseum.
this pattern continues for quite some time until eventually he locates one of the boxes and gets it on my cart. it isn't until then that i realize that this sucker is 178 pounds. anyway, i finally make it to the checkout line. the time on my receipt is 9:24, which means i was there for almost an hour and a half while this guy tried to locate the saw.
fast forward a few hours to when i'm back home again and finally have a chance to assemble the band saw. i notice the box is pretty dinged up, but that isn't too terribly uncommon with tools of this sort. but then i open it up and find that the styrofoam is insanely broken up and ripped and stuff, indicating that this thing may have had a bit of a rough life. upon further inspection, i find that this thing comes with somewhere on the order of 300 or so screws, washers, and nuts. and lo and behold, the neat little package which had all of this hardware in neat little compartments had come completely undone, flinging these 300 or so pieces all through the box. i was down on my hands and knees repeatedly like a hubba pigeon trying to find all the stupid little washers and stuff i could.
i started assembling the saw. and continued assembling the saw. and continued assembling the saw. after about 2 hours and the realization that i was still short a few screws and nuts, i decided to take a break and see how much more was left to assemble. to my dismay, i was still only on page 5 of 10 pages' worth of assembly instructions. i decided to say fuck it and return to framing and deal with this tomorrow.
i'm beginning to suspect that some higher power has nothing better to do than to make sure it's completely impossible for me to rip a 2x4 at 12 degrees.