{"id":16471,"date":"2026-07-16T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=16471"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:36:20","slug":"building-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=16471","title":{"rendered":"Building things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16473\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A garage with work benches and various power tools\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0980-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I went for particle board because it was cheap. I forgot how hard it was. Turned out ok though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16474 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"A ehile cabiinete with electrical appliances on it.\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0973-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next up is a cedar shelf for the kid. I cheaped out again and got cedar fence boards that I glued together. Sanding them is proving to be a challenge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16475\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"two sanders and some cedar boards on a work bench\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_1007-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use. I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16476,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16471\/revisions\/16476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}