Thanks Mark! That's the way I'll do it!
With little shop time both today and yesterday, I did get more work done on the long wall. The blocking between the studs is time consuming since due to slight variations in placement, I had to hand measure and cut each piece. If a piece was too long or short, I would first try it in other spaces to see if they were a little bigger and would take the larger piece. As I went along I got better at hitting the mark first time. I used Aleen's for the bigger spaces, but just drenched the small pieces with thin CA and then some accelerator. After doing the blocking on one one side, I took the piece off the building surface and started putting window headers on the reverse side. I tried the entire wall on the building. It's pretty straight and stood up by itself for the photos.
This image was taken after I turned the wall over. The floor ledges blocked access to the spaces where I needed to put the headers thus necessitating turning it over.
Here's the wall in place for a photo test.
When the wall is glued in place I'll put up some temporary diagonal braces to hold the wall plumb, just like in full-size practice. For the jack studs under the windows, I gang-cut them on the mini-chop saw a tiny bit long and sanded them to an accurate fit so they didn't put too much stress on the glued in blocking. This is not hard work, just a bit repetitive. I made an error. I wanted the floor joist for the side aisle to sit on TOP of joist ledge. Instead, the ledge is level with the top of the adjacent columns, So I'll have to use my angle brackets on both sides to hold the joists, not just on the column side. I'll mark their locations in the ledges and glue the angles on before gluing the wall in place.
Building this wall built up my confidence substantially and I have no doubt that the entire entry area will work out right.
Tomorrow's session might be curtailed. I have to take my daughter and son in law to the airport and then have a haircut later in the afternoon. Probably get an hour or so in the shop.
I have a pet peeve with my new MacBook Pro. They've made the track pad so darn big that my palms keep hitting it and make the writing do strange things like jump up a paragraph, delete the picture, etc. I have no idea why Apple felt it was necessary to have a track pad that's 6 1/4" wide! The one on my old MBP worked just fine. I've complained about this on the feedback form they asked me to complete. They asked… I answered!
