So... the wood arrived for my bench and I've spent the last week getting it from this (above) to this (below).
Most of this was done in the machine room - now that we are officially allowed in, post-induction. But the final surfaces still had to be planed by hand. Having gone from spending the best part of a week getting a flat planed surface to this, there are definite signs of progress.
That said, I'm rubbish at maths so getting the angles right wasn't the easiest of tasks. Maybe I've just forgotten it all from school - or maybe I'm just a bit rubbish at it. Either way,
I probably still wouldn't have worked it out had it not been for Tim's step-by-step guide (and patience!) Just a couple more cuts on the tenons to do tomorrow and then we should be set to assemble the frame - very exciting.
I also nipped over to Yandles woodyard in Somerset this weekend in search of some Purple Heart for my vice - not to be confused with the drug of the same name prevalent amongst pill-popping teens in the sixties, and indeed a vice of a very different kind! But more about that later - the wood and the vice.
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Watch out for your fingers, I sliced off another bit of knuckle last week whilst working away, ... in the kitchen... grating cheese.
Fortunately we were having bolognese with plenty tomatoes so none of my claret showed up.
Has summer arrived yet - bbqs etc after workshop?
Possible signs of summer afoot, finally - interspersed with the odd hailstorm! Did manage a post-workshop bbq on Friday as one of the guy's was leaving. But spent all this weekend sanding - exciting stuff. x
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