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So, I’ll start with the end of something. Made as a gift for a friend of Claire’s:

Walnut offcut from the cot, some brass and pewter hardware and felt and viola, a small necklace box. Or key box I suppose. Didn’t come out too badly.

Then it was time to start pushing.

The problem with making a lot of rough-cut component parts is that then you have to turn them into planed non-rough component parts. At least it’s just poplar. And I did stop for forty minutes or so at the start to take the irons from my #04, #04½, #05 and #05½ planes to the diamond plates. It would have been less time, but I discovered the #05’s iron was skewed quite badly (one side was almost 2mm longer than the other).… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 19 Dec 2017 No Comments

Post partum prepping

Baby blanket chest Bandsaw Boxes Finishing

Shed Side Table Woodworking

So, table delivered (yes, the recipient liked it). BTW, if you were wondering, it was a build-along to Richard Maguire’s video series:
In case you were thinking of buying that series, it’s well worth the money.

Today though (and yesterday) was all about cleaning down from the build (and carting away two rubbish bags full of shavings – not being able to burn wood here is a pain) and doing the dozen little jobs that needed doing like sharpening the wooden skew rebate plane I have here; going to use that in a build soon. And every plane had to get a light sanding with fine paper on the tops of the cheeks of their sides for surface rust (the -3C nights came with water vapour condensing on the cast iron) and then a fresh coat of wax.… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 16 Dec 2017 No Comments

Finished.

Finishing Side Table Woodworking

Well, I don’t have a professional studio backdrop for photos, but…

Didn’t come out too badly. I’ve cheated slightly here – the final coat of osmo on the legs is still tacky because the shed never got above 5C today, so it’ll finish curing overnight in the unheated kitchen. But the top has its renaissance wax and it’s been buffed. Tomorrow I’ll wrap it in some spare cloth I have and deliver it.… Read the rest

Mark Dennehy in 13 Dec 2017 No Comments

Stochastic Geometry

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Kneedeep in shavings and carrying on

Post partum prepping

Finished.