Still here - might need to change my username though.

[DynaGlide]

It's been a hectic year.

March: bought a SawStop second hand with the promise that I'd finally sell the motorcycle (my choice).

April: Demo and remodel of dining room commenced.

May-Present: All the usual nonsense of building and finishing cabinets. Still not done, but close!Dining Room

Summer got away from me. Motorcycle got put on hold. Then the last two weeks I ran more wiring for the garage:

Carpet cleaned my floor:

I know it sounds crazy but don't knock it until you try it. The carpet cleaner sucks up the water as you go and has 5 scrubber heads.

While this was all going on I was purging/selling loads of stuff to make room for some new cabinets:

Those cabinets came in Friday afternoon and I had it turned into this by Saturday evening.

Now back to the motorcycle. I neglected/failed to sell it with everything else going on. I was going to ride it to Pittsburgh Saturday from Virginia to store it indefinitely at a friends. Thursday, two days before, I hired a contractor to patch the drywall from my electrical work. He shows up, likes me bike, doesn't know how to ride or much about motorcycles and buys it on the spot. He had cash in his truck and was apparently looking for a while. I go with him to the bank, deposit, ride it over to his house and sign the title over. Just nuts.

So I guess maybe I'll change my name now . .if I ever get some rest.

Matt

 

[gunnyr]

Very nice!!!  The Livingroom cabinets look spectacular!

I went the opposite direction with my purging this year.  I sold my 40 year old Unisaw that was in my home garage along with several other pieces and moved to the CYC50.  (I have a SawStop Jobsite Saw that I keep in my shop for work.)  I also moved my grill from the garage to the back deck.  The CYC50 gives me room to keep an additional bicycle in the garage! [cool] [cool]

I also have an epoxy garage floor.  I consider the install of my epoxy floor to be be one of my brightest moments in life 8).  We were due to close on our new house, I prepped the floor the day before closing, left closing and applied the epoxy immediately so that it would have time to cure before the movers arrived 4 days later.  That was 20 years ago.  I used the Rustoleum product from Home Depot, it has withstood a fair amount of mechanical work and still looks great, no peeling or flaking!  It so much easier to keep clean than the unfinished concrete floor that is in my shop.

 

[Holzhacker]

Very nice garage set up. Congratulations.
You'll be able to get some good work done efficiently.
I don't think selling the motorcycle was the problem. Problem was you only had 1 to sell so none left.
Wife wants me to sell a bike, no problem, I've got more.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

The dining room turned out beautifully.

I don't know that you really need to change your name. There is nothing saying that you have to own one to use that name in the first place, not like its fraud or anything. Besides, that's how we know you.  [big grin]

I'd be willing to bet that there are several "Matts" here, but only one DynaGlide.

 

[Muttley000]

At least 1 more Matt right here lol.  Cabinets look great, on the uppers with the inset doors and a face frame, what did you use for the hinges?  The options I’ve looked at so far are super clunky

 

[hdv]

Like other said: that dining room turned out great.

Are the doors press-to-close? Or are you still thinking of which hardware you want to fit on the doors and drawers?

It must have felt a bit melancholic, or sad even, to see that bike go...

I'd say just keep the name. DynaGlide sounds almost like a product you'd use on the top of that new cabinet saw of yours or on the soles of your planes. To me that makes it a good name for an account on a woodworking forum. No need to change it at all.

 

[DynaGlide]

Thanks guys. Cabinets aren't done yet. I need to add hardware. It's backordered. No push to open feature although I considered it. I also need to run the crown molding.

. . .on the uppers with the inset doors and a face frame, what did you use for the hinges?  The options I’ve looked at so far are super clunky

Hey so I don't do inset. I build out around the doors/drawers to make the upper look inset but they're just full overlay. I did the same thing with my office uppers.

I guess I'll be keeping the username.

 

[DynaGlide]

It must have felt a bit melancholic, or sad even, to see that bike go...

I was ready to move on and I'm okay with it. It's similar feeling to selling all your woodworking tools.

I've been debating it for a few years now. I just kept thinking "I love this, but what if something happened to me and I either became crippled because of it, or worse, died from it"

I was never worried about myself on a bike. It's the other people out there that made me nervous. And I just lost interest the past few years.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

It must have felt a bit melancholic, or sad even, to see that bike go...

I was ready to move on and I'm okay with it. It's similar feeling to selling all your woodworking tools.

I've been debating it for a few years now. I just kept thinking "I love this, but what if something happened to me and I either became crippled because of it, or worse, died from it"

I was never worried about myself on a bike. It's the other people out there that made me nervous. And I just lost interest the past few years.

I definitely see that, people just don't pay attention. Phones were bad enough when they were dumb. Smart phones and Info-tainment screens in cars have made things way worse. I rode a '47 Knucklehead through the 90s and into the early 00s, but gave it up.
I got into bicycles in 2015 and they are actually worse, if you have to do all of the miles on the street, but in a city as big as mine, you don't. There are a lot of miles of trails around here, still needs improvement, but it is there.

 

[leakyroof]

It must have felt a bit melancholic, or sad even, to see that bike go...

I was ready to move on and I'm okay with it. It's similar feeling to selling all your woodworking tools.

I've been debating it for a few years now. I just kept thinking "I love this, but what if something happened to me and I either became crippled because of it, or worse, died from it"

I was never worried about myself on a bike. It's the other people out there that made me nervous. And I just lost interest the past few years.

I definitely see that, people just don't pay attention. Phones were bad enough when they were dumb. Smart phones and Info-tainment screens in cars have made things way worse. I rode a '47 Knucklehead through the 90s and into the early 00s, but gave it up.
I got into bicycles in 2015 and they are actually worse, if you have to do all of the miles on the street, but in a city as big as mine, you don't. There are a lot of miles of trails around here, still needs improvement, but it is there.

Here in Chicago the major headache are kids riding electric scooters. Unlike watching for Bicycles and Motorcycles that behave or operate in a more predictable manner, on the actual street, you have helter skelter operation of the kids coming at any angle, any speed, from any direction and seemingly not understanding that a motorist might not see them at all from that angle that they're speeding from.
I've watched too many close calls of kids who just cheated death or major injury in a dance with traffic, wrong lights for their travel etc.  [scared] [scared] [scared]
The speed of the scoooters is pretty impressive. I've actually had people keeping up with me at 30 mph in traffic... [eek]