A Bit more in the Workshop

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The base ready to turn down the tennon to 1/8 of an inch to fit

into the bottom of the segmented ring that we turned a couple of days ago.

 

There won’t be a post tomorrow, we are off to Sandown for the craft show, weather permitting, all the way up the M3 – M25, and down the A3, looks pretty bad on the weather forecast but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

So, I spent the morning in the workshop after making the bread, putting the dinner on and clearing up.
I retrieved a draw front from an old chest-of-draws that I dismantled last summer, ¾ of an inch thick and 7 inches wide x 4 foot long, solid oak, they don’t make furniture like that anymore.

(See Pictures above, the holes are where the handles were, no worries, there is a good six inches to play with before they intrude into the blank I cut off.)

If you are out and about, trawl the charity shops, there are enough of them around in the high streets these days, so browse around while the misses is doing her thing, it’s surprising what you can find for a few pounds, furniture wise.

Two solid beach stools from the 1950’s with one and a half inch square legs £1 each last week, they would make lovely handles for those chisels that were picked up for a song at the garage sale, not bad when you consider I would have had to pay around the region of £20, plus postage for the same amount of wood ‘on line’ and nine times out of ten its not been properly seasoned.

Anyway the base for the bowl that I started making, cut a good six inches off the draw front, cleaned up and turned to the exact circumference of the inside (about an 1/8 of an inch in depth) of the segmented circle is enough, turn over on the face plate and clean up the other side. Once again I use double sided tape to attach the blank to the faceplate, its easy to remove the piece after turning and doesn't mark the wood so there is no waste.



I’ll do a bit more at the weekend, going shopping this afternoon, crossed the burgers off the shopping list though, make do with a bit of mince and mix my own, you just never know these days with all the pretty pictures on the box in the freezer’s of the supermarkets.

 

Thanks for dropping by

be back at weekend.