Unfortunately, her birthday just recently passed.
And I'm still not finished.
I should have stuck with gardening, like with my other sister's mother's day present.
I'm lucky, though, because she understands that a present that comes directly from the heart can sometimes take a little longer than expected, due to unforeseen difficulties.
And, wow... difficulties there have been... from the very start.
I grabbed a huge pile of black walnut tree branches that I had collected over the past couple of months. I thought it'd be great to try to use a pocket saw to cut the branches I was using for the project.
I mean, how cool is that? Such a tiny piece of equipment that can be used to fell branches just screamed for me to use it! I'd loop a saw that's basically a thin wire around a branch and swiftly pull back and forth to produce a nice, even cut. It seemed to work quite nicely.
Unfortunately, once I got a nice rhythm going and could smell the overwhelmingly beautiful scent of fresh sawdust, a slight problem occurred...
Snap!
The wire snapped in half, and I was left with a mostly, but not quite complete cut.
A small problem. Nothing I couldn't handle, though... So I went searching for our hacksaw. After a while, I found it, and set to work cutting the branch.
After a while, I realized that it was taking far to long to get that branch cut, so I inspected the blade.
Seriously bent, and horribly dull. I breathed a sigh of relief, glad that the problem was the tool, and not the user.
I decided it was time to find myself a cheap power saw. Of course, I have no idea what 'cheap' means in the power tool world, since I always keep myself safely cocooned with simple tools: hammers, wrenches, pliers... the simple stuff. Zero environmental impact, since no energy is used, aside from brute force.
I mean, sure, I have an awesome drill, but anyone can use one of those with zero difficulty.
A saw, on the other hand...
Wish me luck!
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