Recovering

I didn't touch an instrument today which is unusual. I'm anxious to complete our sun room project. Today's project involved filling, sanding, and painting the two posts that support the roof of the old part of the sun-room. Several months ago I cut the lumber which I used to wrap the posts. My plan was to wrap the 4x4's with 1x6 lumber mitered to give a clean corner which I would round off with hand sanding. I didn't take into account the fact that the 40 year old posts weren't quite "true" anymore and my exact miters didn't quite reach each other in a few places. This was really disappointing because it took a long time to rip all those edges on the table saw. The cheater way to do this would have been to cut the lumber to fit the 4x4's exactly, and then fill the corners with quarter round trim. But no, I wanted it done the way a craftsman would do it, which of course I'm not.

Before giving up and just covering my miters with outside corner trim I decided to see if the labor intensive process of filling with wood putty and sanding would give me a smooth finish. It was after all going to be painted. Many hours later I had a sore shoulder and lungs full of sawdust but poles that look great. The corners are rounded and smooth as plastic. They're not perfect but you have to look closely to see that there's any fill work. ¶ 8:34 PM