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I spent the weekend in Laughlin again, this time with friends and family, but I was able to get some woodworking done before and after the trip. Tuesday night one of the Cub Scout dads came over and we cut about 3/4″ off the top of his son’s pinewood derby car on the bandsaw

I attended the Forbidden Fantasy Car Show in Laughlin this weekend and was trying to get the Giant Jenga Drinking game finished up in time for it. I broke out the table saw as soon as I got home from work on Thursday night and cut out all the pieces to make 2 carrying cases for Jenga games. First thing Friday morning I ran over to Home Depot and picked up 4 – 8 ft 2 x 3’s and I donated the Giant Jenga game to their raffle, held on Sunday, but set it up Saturday morning near the raffle booth so that people could play with it during the day.

The new one had a little void in it so I covered it with masking tape and then gave it a quick coat of black spray paint Friday night. I sanded the top layer of black paint off the six Adventure Pin plaques, the Smoky Bear sign, and the MiniTruckin’ sign. While they were drying, I gave the Adventure Pin plaques and Smokey Bear sign a good coat of Golden Oak stain and set them out to dry as well. Monday night I put 2 coats of spray poly on the Adventure Pin plaques and a third coat on the front of the elephants and names.

that, they all got a good coat of spray polyurethane and I let them dry out in the sun for 30 minutes. While they were drying, I sanded the 2 Forbidden Fantasy plaques down, and gave them a coat of Spray Polyurethane as well. After the poly dried on the Adventure Pin plaques I gave them a coat of black spray paint along the edges and into the carved out areas. I was then able to give the Forbidden Fantasy signs one more coat of spray poly before we had to leave for my family’s St. Patrick’s day celebration.