19 March 2026

ephwhyell | vol 0.2


vol. 0.2 v. 01 header

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vol. 0.2 v. 01 square


the place where we are is the place where all of the things have been acquired and prepared to build the work table, so that i can begin working toward my dream, but the table, itself, still needs to be built.

the task seemed simpler than it has ultimately turned out to be, and [i'm two beers in, so apologies, lol] i've never built a table, but as a fine-art student, i was a sculpture major, and i learned how to use a lot of tools, so i figured i'd approach the table like a "sculpture" of a table, lol. it's going alright. the only reason why it is not going "great" is because we both job day-jobs (i'm technically full-time), and we are nocturnal, so we are awake overnight, and so, by the time the time is appropriate to make noise, we are tired, but we've been able to muster the necessary muster to get the tasks done in very bite-sized pieces, and so, we've been painstakingly logging the number of "Table Days" we've expelled on this project (oh, we also live in an apartment building, and this would be an impossible task if we didn't have a lanai, etc., just fyi), and at some point yesterday, i realized that i finally had a vol. 0.2 sorta thing to put together ... the Table Build, lol.

thus, vol. 02 seems to be shaping up to be more akin to a sailor's log of building this goddamn [please do not read my use of profanity as a complaint about building this thing, for it is not, for the making of this thing has been absolute good times, albeit more challenging than we had at-first anticipated {a forthcoming post about the entire experience is inevitable, lol}, but neither of us ever shy away from a challenge] table.

so, some pics and some links \\//.




these are all of the pieces of the table
after they've been sorted and sanded

the delivery of the lumber was a whole ordeal all its own
and i will eventually post a whole post about it
cause it was a whole thing
but it worked out in the end
and everything that this build has taught us
includes the delivery
and
*sigh*
it's been a whole thing
and maybe you're thinking that we're stupid for not-thinking it'd be a whole thing
but we knew that it would be a whole thing
and it is





we finally tested out the drill a few days ago, and we drilled a few holes [in two sizes] and screwed a few screws into some extra lumber (as outlined in the HOME DEPOT Day post, lol), and we even screwed two pieces of lumber together!



what remains on the list of things to do is as follows:

  • map out/measure all of the necessary holes onto the wood
  • drill the holes
  • screw table pieces together/put the table together
  • tack down table top
the day we drilled some practice holes was literally, the Seventh Day that we've spent doing something table-related. one of the Days was literally buying drill bits, etc., but seriously, building a table inside an apartment building in a very-urban setting with zero table-building experience has been real, lol, but it's possible; it really is.


where there's a will, there's a way, as they say.





vol. 0.2 v. 02 header



vol. 0.2 v. 02 square





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