Blogging

You may have received a link via email? From me. Call it computer fiddling without any knowledge of what blogging is all about. I hit the share button and poof off it went to who knows where but it might have been to a bunch of folks in my "circles" group,something else I have to figure out

Cheers. Neil

everyone blogs

Well it must be that time of the year. The sun shines and it's time to hit the lumber yard. I bought lumber to begin building the deck on the west end of Dot's "funny house."

Of course my body is a year older and it was noticeably so in the lumber yard when it came time to load the 6 X 6's

projects take time

wow I can't believe how long it's been since I worked on the stereo cabinet I started a few years ago. I finished the back in the last week, figured out a stain colour and actually started clear coating the insides of the drawers. Wow, progress.

The desk is finished. I'll have to add a photo, but first I need to see if my blog space is working using the new sign in. Looks like it does...now to find a photo. So here is some desk detail..pegged tenons holding the lower stretcher.

box joints

I have finished all the box joints for three drawers and cut the dados on the inside of the drawer sides and ends. The dados will accept the solid oak drawer bottoms, which were cut to size and have now been fitted. The exact location (depth) of the drawer bottoms with respect to the box joints was tricky. As the sides and ends have been oversized (wrt height) I was able to cut the dados such that they did not straddle two box joints and become visible on both the sides and ends. The dado is visible on the drawer front, barely visible in the attached photo, but as it will accept a "finished" false front, the dados will not show. I will plug the small holes on the drawer backs. Before glue up I will size the height of the drawer backs and sides so they fit the openings in the frame of the desk. As the bottoms are solid oak, it was necessary to pay close attention to the "edge fit" of the three boards used to make each bottom. Edge grain oak and boards that were seasoned in excess of ten years were used. The "squarely jointed" edges also ensured that the finished bottom did not curl after glue up.

a good way to spend lunch

It has been almost a year since I saw most of my old mates from work. There were nine of us at the pub for a beer lunch. It was great to catch up with everyone. The group is holding up well. It was welcome relief at this hectic time of the year. A few are still holding down full time jobs, some are fully retired and some are on the threshold. Spirits were high. It was nice.

an update on my sawdust blog

Not having done this blogging thing before except for my initial entry these remarks here constitute what I hope is an add-on to my original blog. We'll see how this all turns out