Hello fresh and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast. Today is Thursday, February 15th, 2018,

otherwise known as Singles Awareness Day. A day that, as we all know, was created to pay homage and bring awareness to the great early 90s romantic comedy reality bites.

I'm Chris Salmone and with me as always are Mike Montgomery and Venuator.

What's up?

Hey, couple single dudes.

Are you guys happy?

There's finally a day bringing awareness to your plight.

Yeah, our struggle.

It feels good to be recognized, right?

Yep, and appreciated.

What are you working on, Ben?

You go first this time.

I just dusted myself off after about six or seven straight hours of grinding plywood with angle grinders. It's been pretty fun making like the whole shop is just covered in dust. It looks like it. It's like a snow

apocalypse and there's just a very fine pine plywood sawdust everywhere.

So I've been using both the big seven inch rigid angle grinder which is super heavy but really removes

wood fast and then the smaller sort of Riobe angle grinder and should finish up the

last of the pedestal displays. I posted about them on

Instagram, sort of a sneak preview of what like four of them look and pretty much done seeing them there's a few more where the

glue is drying and then probably a little bit more sanding on Tuesday you were

recording on a Monday night and then should have them all ready to be installed on

Wednesday for a little opening party or a little preview of the shop on Thursday the day this episode is coming out.

So it's been a sprint for the last 20 or so days and you know it's interesting it's a lot of hours of

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