Marilyn at Charminis and I did have a virtual meeting yesterday, and I did get some prep work done for the wooden shoe factory. As the saws are still in the Research & Development phase - I can't mimic the teeth of the saws well enough to my taste - I did some boring but necessary work towards the roof for the workshop.
The beams at the right had to be notched, individually, at the far end in order to fit into the angle of the beams on the slanted roof section, a job which required a saw, a sharp knife, a file, sandpaper and a fair bit of patience as well as trepidation, as I was cutting along the narrow end of an angle and worried about breaking the thin part of the angle off. But it is done,they fit, and they are stained and numbered and ready to install.
The stumpy thing with the yellow end is what is left of the corn whisk broom that I have been dismantling to make the reeds for the roof; they are all cut into 2" (5 cm) sections ready to be glued between the roof beams.
That is a job which should take a while, and hopefully I will be able to come up with a method of making saws that I can live with! One has teeth on both edges, while the other is a large curved saw, with teeth along the curves.
Good progress none the less. And that corn whisk has been wittled down too a point to the point that it looks a 1:12 ccorn whisk. :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the saws, I gave no doubt that you will get a good result in the end.
Huibrecht
Thank you, Huibrecht. I do like a challenge....
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