debor054

Wow 2000 page views - another 1000 in just over a month!  Now I feel really guilty due to my lack of posts over the past few weeks. So what's been happening? ... Not a lot on the wood working front to be honest. I have been spending my time doing a little DIY around the house, building the raised beds and getting the garden ready for Spring. Lots of digging, collecting of manure and compost preparation etc. I The new ' Timber ' has been stored away in the garden shed as it's a bit wet, not 'tree wet', but rain wet. It was soaked on the day of delivery, probably due to being stored outdoors at the wood yard, so I'm giving it time to dry out a bit. This could take some time with our damp weather over here in the UK, once Spring arrives and the sun starts to heat things up a bit I'm sure things will improve. I did bring a board or two straight indoors to see how they might handle being dried faster due to our central heating. I had rough cut a 6ft board int...

Currently reading and enjoying Country Furniture by Aldren Watson. After the recommendation of  this post  at the Renaissance Woodworker , I immediately jumped on to Ebay and got myself a copy. I wont bother giving an in depth review, but needless to say I highly recommend it if you are even vaguely interested in 'Old-School' wood working tools, techniques and furniture. The hand sketched diagrams are stunning...

My first post of 2012 and I'm already breaking my ' Work with more hard woods'   New Years Resolution .  OK - I'm not breaking it literally but it seems very likely given what's posted below... We (the girlfriend and I) have been discussing having some raised beds in the garden to grow vegetables for some time and with wood being expensive - a lot more expensive than  vegetables  anyway, the whole project seemed like a waste of time and a false budget.   Until I found an advert on Ebay selling 13ft long x 225mm wide x 36mm thick scaffold boards at £200 for 25 boards. That works at just over £2 per meter! According to the dealer it's  Scandinavian  Redwood - to me it's Pine! The wood I used for my large coffee table top (also Pine) of almost exactly the same dimensions cost around £12 per meter! So, the 'plan' is to build some things to sell and thus (hopefully) get the wood for the raised garden  vegetable  beds for essentially fre...