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2018-09-09
09 September
By Mark Dennehy
On Sep 9, 2018
In Desk Shelf, Shelves, Woodworking
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Modelling

So I was really just at a low energy setting this weekend, and it was one of the first rains of the coming winter and even just looking at the shed was making me tired, but I have been wondering about something with the design of Calum’s shelves/desk thingy, which is whether or not to put a backing board behind/between the top two shelves. It’d stop stuff falling off the back of those shelves, give a larger contact area with the wall, and stiffen up the whole carcass; but it’d change the look of the unit quite a bit and the joinery might get complex unless I cheated and used a router to carve out a rabbit for the panel.… Read the rest

2018-09-02
02 September
By Mark Dennehy
On Sep 2, 2018
In Desk Shelf, Woodworking
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More shaping

So I decided to go ahead and shape the front curve today, since it was going to be awkward to cut and might be noisy so it’d have to be a weekend job really.

Why is it awkward? Well, the plan is to make the first rough cut with the bandsaw and then to get down to the line with the compass plane and the board is long enough that swinging it around through the bandsaw inside the shed would be awkward and would probably need the door open and the plank sticking out at some point.… Read the rest

2018-09-01
01 September
By Mark Dennehy
On Sep 1, 2018
In Desk Shelf, Woodworking
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Short day’s shaping

Not much time in the shed today, but enough to make a start. First, new toys!

So some catches to help with the mod to the Dewalt extraction hood (I think I have everything I need for that now, I’ll get to it soon), an incredibly cheap handplane ($4.30 from Aliexpress delivered) which is more to play with and laugh at than to seriously try to use as a tool, and two interesting tape measures.… Read the rest

2018-06-27
27 June
By Mark Dennehy
On Jun 27, 2018
In Shelves, Woodworking
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Can you tell what it is yet?

Well, that empty In Progress… list lasted a while, didn’t it?
Though I actually went back through my notebook…

…and every project in there bar this one is marked as Done or (in one or two cases) marked as Won’t Do, What Was I Thinking. This one will be a small bookshelf for Calum. Well, small to you and me, but not to him. The idea is this will have his books and toys and assorted child-related detritus now (he’s six and between kindergarten and vorschule so just learning to read and write at the moment) and we figure he really won’t have “homework” in the traditional I-need-a-proper-desk-and-I-still-don’t-want-to-do-it sense until he’s nine or ten, so off to the internet I go and I grab the UK90 based growth rate charts for boys aged 2 to 18, and find Calum’s centrile, so now I have his current height and his predicted height until he’s nine (it’s not that accurate, they change centriles faster than they change their socks if you don’t tell them to, but it’s better than pulling a number completely out of thin air.… Read the rest

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  • The new Lidl Parkside Lathe. ⁣
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⁣It’s cheap, loud, it vibrates too much. It’ll walk all over the bench if you don’t bolt it to something. It’s as rigid as fresh bread. It’s hilariously underpowered. The chisels are really quite remarkably dull. I have no idea how to store it in the shed (except maybe by disassembling the thing). The chisels are pointy enough to hurt and they’re packed with nothing shielding the pointy bits in an unmarked box that opens from either end and which you’re remarkably likely to tip out into your hand. The faceplate is pure pot metal. The wrenches don’t fit the spindle, just the centers. It feels cheap and not exactly flimsy, but definitely like it won’t survive more than a year or two. It’s an M18x1.5 spindle thread and I’ve no idea if the small cheap chinese chucks would fit or if it has the power to spin them. The odds this thing could turn a bowl big enough to fit two lumps of sugar in are pretty low. ⁣
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⁣Mind you, for €80, it is a hell of a lot of fun :D⁣
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  • Before and after with the smaller bandsaw cart. Still needs some plywood panels for anti-racking. ⁣
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