francovendee wrote: ↑20 May 2022, 8:05am
Cugel wrote:
Nearly two years "sabbatical" has been sufficient for me. But some cycling matters have arisen .....
Cugel
Nice to see you back Cugel.
What wonderful wooden creations have you been making in those years?
The workshop has been fairly busy - in between the many bike rides, dog walks, garden works, house fixin' and so forth.
Small box making was a thing for a while, many of them to hold the body parts for the ladywife's teddybear making, as well as the surgical instruments required to assemble or disassemble these furry items. I'm also beginning a liaison with a local lad who carves slate for a hobby, to make slate-bearing wooden things, such as that box.
I've been teaching woodworking to more ladies from the ladywife's WI lot, as well as to the slate carver. They've made an item or four between them.
Plane-making became a small obsession for a while - wood-bodied planes with bought-in metal parts such as adjuster and blade. I've made two small smoothers, a jointer and a mitre/shooting plane, all of which work extremely well apart from the first smoother, which was the "learn from your mistakes" item.
A large panel gauge with various marking parts (knife-wheel, scratch-awls and pencils) was also made, for marking out parts to cut from sheets of plywood and veneered blockboard..
Although the hoose is stuffed with furniture, I did find space in the small front door entry porch to stuff in a few items for shoes, hats and so forth, including a box/seat for sitting at when changing shoes as well as to hold the dog-towels for de-clarting the mucky beasts after their walks.
Pictures follow.
Cugel
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