i need to make a curtain rod for this window here and that needs to be 2.8 meters or 9 feet long
so i cut a long piece off of this board but it's still not quite long enough to have to
splice the piece on the end but then i found the piece i cut off was actually
a bit crooked so i had to actually cut it in the middle to splice that bend out of it
and i just cut through it at an angle with the table saw and then sanded these pieces
so that they joined to make it straight but i still have to do another splice here and i
figure i'll do it this shape like this so i won't lose that much length that fit needs a bit of work
needs more adjustments
well that's as good as it's gonna get so i just need lots of glue in there and conveniently this
glue has gotten quite thick actually a little bit too thick so i'll add a little bit of water
oh as soon as i clamp this it starts pushing it apart again so what i'll do is i'll clamp
this piece next to it and that'll keep it from sliding apart and now i can clamp it in the middle
and i'll let it dry with a joint surface nearly horizontal so gravity doesn't pull the glue out
that looks surprisingly decent
now i just got to do the other joint which is more of a straightforward scarf
joint and straightening the rod on the jointer
and then cutting it to a consistent width from the table saw
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so i got my very long curtain rod which by the way is spliced
right here it's a little bit more obvious on the other side and you need some supports for
this and i've kind of made a little prototype support just out of pine it's going to go like
this i'm cutting a double tendon with my box joint jig here
and cutting a double mortise on the complementing piece also on the box joint jig
foreign
so
off camera i varnished everything and also add a steel pin across the joint that's just a nail
really and it still all fits together i want to keep this curtain rod because we like this other
curtain to be behind that and the logical thing would be to put the brackets on here like this
so that the new curtain can completely cover the old one problem is they put this on the stud
which means i need to be kind of there as well so i decided to put it right here i had to put
a cutout in the back of it to fit over the old bracket but even so i wasn't close enough
and this hole ended up going into the void but i think this hole here will be quite adequate
because it goes into the stud i'm just going to put some caulking in that hole that i won't use
the middle one has to go right on top of the old bracket so i cut it to fit
and hopefully that'll keep the kids from waking up so darn early this summer
you