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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    There is a (very) little curve, though those photos don't really show it. It's a little more visible from the house side, but even then it shows more in real life than the photo: Either way the client is happy, and I can ignore the mistakes and gappy joints long enough to be happy with it too.
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    I'd forgotten how long it is since I last posted here. The project wasn't abandoned, but between my health and other things going on, didn't get finished before the winter. It all got unpacked around April and chipped away at over several weekend visits, until two weeks ago all the pieces were...
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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    Or this slightly less picturesque one, which was Christmas dinner this year gone: Having done it a few times before with chicken, I decided to do it to a goose because it'll be basically the same thing, right? Turns out while the motions are the same, the force required for some parts is an...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Another short session today, but getting on for an important part. Over the last week or so, in between family duties and storm damage, I'd been dimensioning the front drawer runners - the ones that will be visible. Only the front and top surfaces are really critical for these, so I was a bit...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Finally it feels like a bit of actual progress is happening. Having routed out the housings for the centre divider, and had the CUF visit that always seems to come when I reach for power tools out of laziness, the tongues were done by hand, with a #78: Of course, the timber continued to be...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, I did say this would be slow. It's not been abandoned, just shelved while I was informed I had more pressing projects to attend to. After getting back from Christmas with the family, though, and with weather that wasn't favourable to fixing the back garden, I managed to pick it up again...
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    Having got a variety of quotes for the timber, ranging from £800 including VAT and delivery to £1200 plus VAT and delivery, the order was duly placed for the former option and it arrived on site a few weeks back. At that point I could only get over there for a day to help unload, but this week I...
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    I've got a commission to build a pergola at some point this summer, currently in early planning. The client for this one is my mother, so there's plenty of leeway for collaborative design where appropriate. She's not fussy about the materials or construction, but I'd like to use green oak and...
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    Displacement activity

    I decided I'd had enough of thicknessing 1200x350 boards by hand, and went looking for something else to do for a while. My brother had a birthday just before the lockdown easing, and had asked for a chopping board. So, we have an unnecessarily detailed and boring thread for everyone's first...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    A shorter session on this today. A new set of garden tools arrived, so a good chunk of the evening was spent using those; it would have been rude not to. Well, I'm committed to this one now - I've cut both the side pieces to the shorter length now. Which means the next job is the one I've not...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, while nobody may know for sure how to keep the C-U-F away, there are some definite ways to invite it in. One of them is thinking "it's getting a bit late, maybe I should pack up for the night... oh, I'll just finish cutting these panels to length first, there's only two left." These two...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    And with the panels done, I came back to the problem of ripping straight. I remembered a thread from UKW a while ago where someone was having trouble with a brand new Lynx saw - different brand, but same manufacturer as the Pax - leaving a rough kerf because it was overset from the factory...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    I decided to set aside the ripping problem for a while, and get on with gluing up the panels that will form the main cabinet body. I find the least-effort approach here is just a pair of parallel jaw clamps per panel, and some mini F clamps across the join at the end to keep them well enough...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Ironically, that was part of the idea behind getting the new one. I'll have a look next time I'm over Ridgeons' way, though I'm obviously trying to save up and do multiple things in one trip. In the meantime, I finished off the cuts with the Irwin (mostly, except for a few times I switched to...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, after some more planing of the smaller pieces, I had a few longer rips to make next. The piece is going to be around 350mm deep to fit the available space, and most of the boards I've got are between 150 and 260 wide. That means a few metre-plus lengths that need ripping in half to make...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, having taken the best part of a week off to go and cook for Mothers' Day, I've got back to this in the last few days. When we left off, I was planing one face and edge on everything. When I resumed, I was still planing. I'm sure I had a metre rule around here somewhere, I just put it...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, here's the part I was trying to put off by doing the short pieces first: That's up against my normal planing stop in the furthest-left set of holes I've got. I didn't want to drill any more too close to the end, because that top's only an inch thick and it's cheap pine, so blowing it...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    I've been telling my wife I'll build a chest of drawers for the bedroom for about the last year, and have finally finished enough of the distractions-slash-excuses (workshop reorganisation, electrical work, under stairs storage, etc.) that I couldn't justify waiting any longer to get going...
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    Cleaning up lipping

    For that section, I'd be inclined to just use a rebate cutter in a router table and adjust by trial, error, and plenty of scrap pieces until it lined up perfectly. As much as I'd generally prefer to do things by hand, very long, very straight cuts are one of the places where machines are worth...
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    Merry Christmas (presents)

    Two workshop-related gifts this year: I'm quite looking forward to cutting dovetails with something other than a yellow and black builder's chisel whose bevelled edges manage to have 3mm of vertical wall before the bevel starts.
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