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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

MiL's breakfast bar installed.
The cabinet was just a preused one that suited her needs.
The top is made from reclaimed oak, and the raised back supports the additional power sockets (fused at the plug) and stops things falling down behind the cabinet.

It gives MiL the extra storage and work top she needs, while still allowing a breakfast stool at each end.

It is not fine cabinet making, but it suits a need.

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A breakfast bar cabinet in a long, thin kitchen. The cabinet is 900mm long, 420mm deep, and 770mm high. It has an oak effect finish and has two doors, and a wide drawer above. Built onto the top of the cabinet is a solid oak top 1700mm wide and 450mm deep. The ends over hang the cabinet by 400mm at each end to allow for a stool to go under. There are the two stools, 1960s style beech wood, with black vinyl seat pads. The back of the oak top is a raised board 200mm high in the middle dropping down to 70mm high at each end. There are two double electric socket outlets mounted on the board. The top is already cluttered with stuff, including a toaster znd a radio. The wall behind is pale blue tiles.
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Today I
* stressed over a failed $51 payment and spent a while on hold trying to find out what to do about it (more #mutualaid would definitely help here)
* made more progress on the solar panel bumper (drilled holes in the wood pieces and fastened most of them together, except for the top side expansion piece that has to be cut lengthways and is taking much effort so I am cutting it a bit at a time),
* fixed my saw's (missing screw to hold on its handle) problem with a coach bolt and nut,
* made a start on chopping up the motor housing for the swing arm motor I removed from the front of the bus yesterday,
* dismantled a higgledy-piggledy ladder for its wood and screws,
* and enjoyed some nice sandwiches.

#buslife#skoolie#DIY
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

Due to getting both cars on the driveway, Bugsy, our 1.6l Skoda Octavia, is the one nearest the gates. It means that we will use it in preference to Scout, our 2.0l Octavia Scout 4x4 tow car.

However, Bugsy doesn't have a level boot floor (I have already sorted Scout in a different way) and so it is really difficult to lift my tool cases in and out.
Today I made a level boot floor using the left over scraps of plywood left by the builders who installed Mum's wetroom.

It means we can use the cleaner and more efficient car to go to the community workshop tomorrow, and to Repair Cafe this weekend.

The boot area of a blue estate car. There are three black plywood boards, loosely laid down in the boot, on a couple ofrails on each side. The gaps in the boards show wooden tabs glued on underneath to interlock with each other. The rear most board is pulled out and resting on the bumper. It has a hand hole cut into it to allow it to be lifted out.
A close up of the join bwteen two of the boards. The upper (forwards) one has a single wide tab in the centre. The lower (rearward) one has two tabs. Then pushed together they interlock to support each other.
The boot floor fully slotted together. It butts up neatly against the back of the seats and the wheel arches, and is level with the rear bumper. There are recess left on each side behind the wheel arches.
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

The chair was then reassembled, and all the joints clened of old glue and reglued. The legs and the two main back spindles have wedged tenons, and the have all been rewedged with new beech wedges.

I decided to have the repaired spindle sideways onto the front of the chair so that from the side it hardly shows, but from the front and back it is a very obvious repair.

Due to the very poor condition of the chair, with woodworm holes, and the shoddy brown varnish, it will never be a valuable antique. But the repair will add to the story of this chair due to its sentimental value to its young owner. Maybe they will strip off the old varnish and refinish it properly one day.

The repaired spindle refitted to the chair. Seen from the back, the diagonal tapering splice of new beech can be clearly seen against the brown varnish on the original wood.
Seen from the front of the chair, looking into the corner of the seat, the repair is even more visible as a bright flash of new wood.
The chair reassembled. All the joints have been cleaned and refitted with glue and new wedges. It is standing on the messy work bench.
#Repair#RepairCafe#Woodwork
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

The other bit of woodwork I have just finished is the chair for Levenshulme repair cafe.

The chair was completely loose and one spindle had snapped due to woodworm.
It has a makers mark signifying that it was produced by Ercol in the 1960s.
The mark shows as:
BS DH 1969 2056

I took the chair apart and then cut off the broken end of the spindle.
The cut was made at an angle and planed flat. A block of beech wood, to match the original, was also cut and planed to a matching angle, and glued in place.

A chair with an elm seat, and turned spindle legs and back rest. The legs are splayed and through wedged tenoned into the seat, and have turned rails betweem them. The back has two large turned spindles tenoned into the seat, and three thin spindles, tenoned into the rear leg rail, rising up to a curved rail at the top of the back rest. It is on a messy workbench.
A close up of the right side backrest spindle showing that it has snapped just above the cair seat. The broken stump is still in the seat. Also visible is the poor state of the brown varnish that is not original to the chair.
The broken spindle with a diagonal splive onto a block of beech wood. It is held with clamps while the glue cures.
A close up of the makers mark ont he underside of the chair seat. It is a long rectangle with the British standards kite mark in the centre. The kite mark ooks like aheart, made from a B lying on its back, over a large V and with an S in the middle. The letters B.S. and D.H. are on either side of the top of the kite mark. while the numbers 1960 and 2056 are on either side of the bottom of the kite mark. It has been pressed into the underside of the seat, crushing the wood fibres to form the lettering.
#Repair#RepairCafe#Woodwork
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

The board, after scrub planing to as close to flat as it needed to be, was then planed smooth with a jack plane, and sanded.

The unfim=nished corners where the cramps are will be cut off to make radiused corners.

It will be a breakfast bar, over a bought cabinet, with an overhang each end for sitting at.

As a side project I also took apart and reglued one of the stools that will be used with it.

An oak board planed and sanded smooth and mostly flat for a breakfast bar top. There are weo corners where the board is clamped to the edge of the workbench that have been left unfinished. They will be cut off later.
A 1960s 1970s beech wood stool with four legs and a black vinyl seat pad, standing on the workbench.
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

I have been in the workshop hand planing oak.

I joined two bits of old reclaimed (From Manchester University Library) shelf sides to make a wider board. Annoyingly they were badly cupped and without access to my table saw there was little I could really do without a lot more effort.

So, instead the effort went into it today to scrub plane it flatter.
A scrub plane (my version) is a short plane with a very cambered blade that cuts a scoop. It is very easy to 'scrubb off' lots of wood by planing across the grain, then diagonally in a cross hatch, and then along the grain, before using a jack plane to smooth the surface.

Two varnished but dirty and rough oak boards, glued together and in sash cramps. It is standing edge ways on the ends of the cramps and leaning against the side of the workbench in a crowded and messy workshop. The glued boards are about 1700mm long and 430mm wide.
A close up of the sole of my scrub plane. The protruding plane iron (blade) has been ground with a curved profile so that only a small arc of the cutting edge protrudes.
The oak board clamped to the edge of the bench. it is covered with wood shavings and the scrub plane, a modified Stanley Number 4, is resting on the board in the middle of a diagonal cut for cross hatching the board surface.
A close up of the surface of the oak board. It shows the grain pattern but also the shallow scalloped groves cut in a diagonal pattern with the scrub plane.
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