A few little projects that I've been fitting in between thinking about the big stuff.
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Left over Cedar from the dining room set, whittled pegs glued onto a board - outside our front door
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| A necessary monstrosity, this covers a drop to the basement window, ugly but important with roaming toddlers! |
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| A little cupboard so the locals can still pick up eggs when we are out and about. |
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| Bathroom cabinet |
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| Wine bottle rack - no sanding or finish due to rustic asthetic and laziness |
These salt and pepper mills were and early project kit made for a christmas present to Karen. These have to be the biggest nightmare I've undertaken so far. The kit is really designed for a full lathe set up which I didn't have so I hand drilled the large central (wonky) holes with much sweat and swearing. Then due to the poorly worded (in my opinion) instructions the mortice joint didn't fit together as intended - hence the over long, exposed tenon. To cap it all I'd under estimated the weight and size of the top so they fell over whenever an earwig sneezed in the garden. I recently made her a holder to help with stability and vowed never to attempt these again.
A year later and my mum wanted a set so I got another kit and prepared for nightmare number two :-( fortunately the new pillar drill, and the previous experience of observing the instructions helped a lot and not only was it considerably easier (though still unpleasant) but they worked out much better too.
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