Dino-Mite!

What do you get for the man that has everything? The man that is really a 9 year old stuck in a 60 year old's body? A goddamn dinosaur, that's what. But where to get said dinosaur. It has to be cool, and everybody knows that for something to be cool it has to be big. Bigger and badder than the other guys. Now I had toyed with an idea for some time now, and so when my brother suggested that we give my father a 3D dinosaur puzzle for his 60th birthday I was all in. "But we need to enlarge it and cut it out of plywood" he said. Well, obviously. In regular Fox fashion this idea was hatched a mere week before said birthday. No biggie; how hard could it be? Purchase regular, aka miniature, dino puzzle from amazon.

Check. 'Do you have a jigsaw?'. Uh, yeah. I am a man, geesh. Sidenote: I am not very good with a jigsaw. After telling my buddy his response was 'After this, you will be'.

Get Plywood from local lumber yard. Check. Obtain old school projector like from Ms. Miller's 3rd grade classroom. Check. (yeah, my lady has one for her art projects; locking her in gets better daily). Now work.

Trace the shit

Cut the shit!

Measure twice

PUT

IT

TOGETHER

It took awhile to cut everything out and then sand it just enough so that no splinters ensued. Didn't quite get to the weather-proofing with the polyurethane that we got, but he seemed to like it just the same.

PS we ended up cutting the entire thing out of 3/4" plywood so it would be strong enough (some instructions said they used 1/2" and it was flimsy) but the extra weight of the 3/4" put quite a bit of strain on the toes of the feet. They are essentially balancing the beast and one of the toes snapped the day prior to the reveal. When we take it apart to poly it I will have to cut new feet out of some solid wood for strength; then it'll be ready for the garden :)

What did you complete last week? Take 'er easy.