Phew. Its been a busy and hard week, what with the end of term looming and everyone (again) rushing to complete their projects. Despite the fact that I seem to be taking 2 steps backwards for every crawl forward, the dresser is near completion and should be all sprayed up by the end of term (I hope anyway). The annoying thing about working with wood is it never really quite behaves how it should, and so a drawer you've fitted perfectly one day will simply decide not to slide home the next after you've glued the bloody thing up. Its just one of those mysteries of life. Everything requires constant working and reworking, with the occasional prayer and offering to the Gods of Warp.
Here's a couple of handy tips I've learnt from this week though:
1. Just made a tiny mitred drawer? Add some veneer mitre keys going across the grain for strength. Pretty and functional.
2. Having trouble tracing out a difficult shape? Use a washer and run this along the shape and then just cut out on the bandsaw. Job done.
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| Tracing out difficult shapes |
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| Mitre keys |
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| Funky little sewing thingamabob from a house visit this week |
Last but not least, I've had some questions about our Jonathan, and more particularly, how large a measure of volume one really takes up? I know some of you have been thinking about converting to this unit of measurement (metric schmetric), so to give you a better idea, here's a Jonathan in a normal sized chair. Enjoy.
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| A Jonathan is not just for Christmas |
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