Finicky Frames

This week I cut the 42 pieces of wood that make up the window frames.  This simply would not have been possible, within this year anyway, without the use of Andy's table saw.  There were a few false starts -- as usual, it was a good thing I bought extra lumber.  One mistake, not discovered until I'd cut all the frame sides, was that I made the corner notches on half of them too long (forgetting that the lenthwise rabbet would take out additional material).  Fixing these holes required four fill shims on every window; the closer photo above shows an unfilled gap on the right, a shim on the left, and the stock of more shims.

Today I glued them all up in our basement.  With only one set of clamps, I had to do one window at a time, wait half an hour, then move on to the next . . .

Tomorrow I'll trim off all the bevels, and then we'll find out just how accurately I measured the window casings before starting.