u/Jessintheend

After a rough spring mentally and now with time on my hands after getting sacked from a job that had me out of the house 12+ hours a day for 8 hours of pay, I decided to get back into biking for both my mental and physical health. A few rides to get my butt readjusted to the street bike seat and my heart's cobwebs dusted off. I decided to push myself in terms of endurance and did a 32 mile ride! It was technically a bit longer because I biked to the train station that took me to the starting point but that was almost exclusively downhill so not really worth counting as exercise. Most of the route is very fine compacted gravel which made me a bit nervous at first for building up speed and taking turns, after a while though I felt comfortable enough to work up to about 12mph and hold it for 99% of the trime. Whole trip with a lunch stop in Woodinville took just shy of 4 hours!

Here's the route I took! Nothing explicitly challenging other than distance for me (I'm very out of shape). Hoping to do this at least once a week and work up to going around all of Lake Washington!

Not the most spectacular sunrise but it was lovely to watch regardless.

I wanted to go for a fun little city runabout that sipped fuel. So it’s compact, very tapered towards the rear, and will never be built because it’s not a crossover.

So….

I’m 100% biting off more than one should chew, however im currently designing a custom wall bed/intrlocking sofa combo, a double sided bookshelf/tv media console, and ottoman that will double as the support for the wall bed when it’s down.

I’ll be using a metric ton of plywood and want to show off the layers of it along the joints and fascia between the cabinet/bed doors.

Does anyone have recommendations for a handheld router jig that’s suitable for doing what’ll likely be 7-8’ long sections of either box joints or dovetails (just to really show off and make this thing look especially nice).

I’m likely doing all this solo, and what I can reasonably afford in terms of power tools is a track saw, router/jig, and corded drill to get everything together.

I’m still designing everything but aside from the wall bed hardware and some drawer sliders this is literally just a long series of of boxes that I also want to CNC some U shaped brackets to fasten things together an add a nice look to it where the side cabinets and bed, couch module, and to link the bookcase/media console meet up.

Attached is a rough sketch/layout for the wall bed/couch/ottoman platform. Appreciate any advice!