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#woodwork

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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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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

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.

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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 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.

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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.

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.