I've been simmering on a project to add a gigantic cork board (think 4' x 6') to my office wall so that I can constantly decorate with photos from all the shoots I do but never post to flickr or put in albums. About a month ago I bought a roll of cork (you can find anything on the Internet) and I've been sort of lax on the next step, which would be to get the board to which I'd affix said cork.
Okay, that's not really the next step . First I tried to hang it on the wall by itself (turn out that nails in plaster will not hold up 30 pound of cork no matter how many times you try). Fail.
So I finally got around to going to Home Despot to pick up a nice piece of plywood and the vinyl adhesive needed to adhese said cork to said plywood, and selected a nice sheet of 1/4" oak hardwood plywood. Unlike the pressboard crap, the oak will hold shape over time. I monkeyed the heavy piece of wood out to my car, hoisted it onto the roof rack and secured it with some tie-down straps I bought (cursing and muttering at the self-checkout lanes all the way) and headed home at a slow speed with the hazards on.
Doing about 25mph on Route 303 southbound toward Valley Cottage I was commenting on how well things were going, at which point the wind picked up, snapped the plywood in half, and launched it at the BMW behind me. I pulled over, they pulled over, there was no damage to the car, the woman refused to take my information and we were on our way. One bag of vinyl adhesive, one trowel, no wood. Story of my life.
Went back today and bought two pieces of the same plywood, part of the problem with the first attempt was that the thinness of the material made it into a sort of sail. Two pieces would give it a bit of weight (and if I fucked up the cork the first time, I'd have something with which to give it another go) and give me something to secure with the several additional straps I purchased on this next go around.
Fortunately the wood did not fly off the car, and I got it into the house before it started raining. I can't bring it down the outside basement stairs, because they're a solid sheet of ice, so I brought them down the inside basement stairs. Nope, not going to turn the corner.
Hiked one of them up to the third floor and basically managed to apply just enough vinyl adhesive to stick my feet to the newspapers I put down (and probably stick the newspapers to the floor, I'll find out tomorrow) but not quite enough to make the cork stick. Hit it up again with Liquid Nails on the edges, and now I'm hoping we're in business. Tomorrow at some point I'll try to jackass it up onto the wall all by myself. What's the number for 9-1-1?
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