My stained glass project in front of my office window. Still Thursday night here, but it’s #fensterfreitag somewhere. 🙂 #WindowFriday #stainedglass #officewindows #honolulu

Calling it! It could use some touch-ups here and there, but not today.

I’m honestly very pleased, especially considering the dog-flying-plane levels of “I have no idea what I’m doing” I had going in and the number of mistakes I made.

Including a week off, it took just over a month from sticky-note sketch to here. Woo!

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Thinned the bottom trim and straightened everything out, plugged some gaps, and caulked some seams, and I think it’s right now. Just needs a little paint here and there, and I’ll call it good.

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Backing up, slowing down, having a little patience. Removed some pieces, recut some others, spent an hour cleaning up the corbels. (I’ve always loved corbels.)

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The learning continues! Long day.

I got the sill done (turns out it’s called a”stool”) and the interior trim up with some roughed-in hand-carved corbels, but I got tired, I was in a hurry, I got some cuts wrong, and I’m not happy with the result. There are too many parts, they’re not fastened well, and absolutely nothing is straight.

I may rethink all of this; we’ll see if it looks any better in the morning, I know I will. 💤✨

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Spent most of the day scribing and notching out the interior sill piece (reveal TK), then discovered something neat! You know what are much, much harder than they should be? Nigh unto impossible, in fact? 45° angles! Wow!

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Last piece of exterior trim on, wonky spacing, fingerprints in the wet paint and all, in the last ray of sunset. (We had sun today!!) #officewindows

Fastened, spray foam in the gaps, caulked, drip cap on, and tarp back over while everything cures. Now I have to try to remember what my plan was for trim.

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The rain never really stopped, but the wind died down, and this is our last day of spring break, so: IT’S HAPPENING

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bonus: my favorite part of painting.

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then taped the exterior side of the frames and gave them a couple coats of deck paint.

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Made a standoff jig for a razor blade to trim the caulking,

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Made a standoff jig to trim the caulking,

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Took the flapper disk to the last two frames for the #officewindows and coerced them to fit into their bays, then fastened and sealed them. Mistakes were made, and covered up. No one will be the wiser.

Took a couple of days off to have a cold. #officewindows

No visible progress on the windows today. Turns out putting the blocking in very slightly changed the width of the bays, as they nudged the studs one way or another. Also: turns out the flashing tape has a thickness.

The upshot: my tolerances were so tight I had to resize three of the frames – shaved a quarter inch off of the widths and deepened the side notches.

Just battened down in advance of the weather band sweeping up from California. Taking tomorrow off.

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