I feel like I’m this close to being finished with Briana’s crib, having only a few subassemblies left to complete before getting the whole thing together. I’m currently working on attaching the rail assemblies to one of the ends. Each set of rails is attached to the end assembly with four dowels. I had previously drilled the holes into the end, but hadn’t yet used my dowel centers to mark and drill the matching holes in the rail assemblies.
Getting each mark set was easy enough, but the battery on my cordless drill was completely drained. Not to be deterred, I decided to dig out a gift from my father-in-law*:
I expected the brace to get the job done – drilling the holes. What I didn’t expect was the shock of actually hearing the wood shear. Not only that, but how that seemed to speak to me – a whisper that was previously drowned out by the whirring of an electric motor.
I’m not going to win any cat fights in the near future, but I’ll certainly be trying.
*I’ll have another post soon about each gift I was lucky enough to receive this holiday season.
