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Hello again, thanks for checking in and following along.
I was back in the shop again today. I was there from 9 to 4 and it was one of those rollercoaster days. I believe it was Edison who said; " I didn't fail 100 times, I learned how not to build a light bulb 100 times." That sums up the last few times in the shop for me. I have been trying to finish the box trim pieces and have been struggling with the last pieces, the tub corners.
I tried 3 times on my own, then I asked for help, and was successful on the fourth try. The first try, I was using scrounged bed strip pieces left over from someone else’s build. They were okay, but did not match the angle of the tub sides and IMO looked out of place. I had prepped those the previous time in the shop, so with those as a back up , today I wanted to try again. I had been planning out how to build the corners the way I wanted them. I got to the shop today eager to get started, with my planning I thought I would be able to get the pieces built in about 3 hours. Ha ha ha!
Try 2 overall, which was try 1 for the day, went okay but I did not leave any extra material at the top to be rolled over when the bead was added. So that led to try 3 when I added the extra material, which again went okay. The problem was that I couldn’t get the material to shape to the compound angle of the tub side. I was pretty much ending up with the same shape as the scrounged bed strips.
Okay, so I was frustrated and ready to call it a day; go home, re-group and try again either tomorrow or the following weekend. One of the of shop guys showed up to work on their project, so I asked for their help. That is such a sweet perk, sorry if it sounds like I am bragging, I meant to be appreciative. So, just to lessen the hurt to my bruised ego, I had the right steps but in the wrong order. I was putting the bead into the strip before shaping it which made it too rigid to shape the compound curve. I needed to shape the piece, then roll in the bead.
This actually worked pretty great, I had the 1st corner piece done fairly quickly. But by then though I was pretty tired, so I figured I would get 1 more corner done and get a side all tacked together, then call it quits for the day.
Mission accomplished; and while I had a couple of low points to the day I finished on a bit of a high, even if I didn’t get everything I intended getting done, done.

That is how it goes, stay safe..
Steve