Why We Blog
We are working on another DIY project around the casa, and while there is more to come on the specific project we felt the need to blog a bit about a hiccup in the process.
This weekend we’re working on finishing up our half bathroom’s thrift store table turned vanity.
Along the way, we have to drill some holes in our table – which requires us to use a hole saw drill bit. Now we have definitely used hole saws before. We burned up a couple when installing the plumbing fixtures in our kitchen counters.
You can see that these hole saw bits have a mechanism to attach the saw to the drill. Well, as we said we burned them up (read more about that in this old post) so we needed another for the vanity project. This is what we got.
Two completely separate pieces?
Things that definitely make us go hmmmm….
So after reliving a bit of the early 90′s we decided to Google.
And found some unexpected answers. Our favorite of which suggested that anyone asking such a dumb question go take a class on how to use power tools.
Now we are far from experts, but we’ve used a power tool or two in our time and for some reason these insensitive answers bothered us enough to write about them.
Come on seriously? Ask you neighbor?
After closing the laptop and hopping in the car and driving to Lowes, we just realized that our particular hole saw bit also required us to buy a mandrel to attach the two pieces. Nowhere was this suggested in any of our Googled unconstructive insults to our intelligence tips.
Our vanity isn’t photo ready yet, so for this Saturday afternoon we’re just here to say, thanks for reading our blog, we hope our tips are helpful, and if you have an unattached hole saw you might just need to buy a mandrel - but you are not an idiot. It is for this reason we blog – in hopes of offering real stories and real tips for those of you who are like us – eager DIY beavers who are just learning as they go.
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