Manchester Country Ben and 'Don' Vito at Red Bar

 

Out on the back balcony at Red Bar enjoying the breeze with Ben before his country band from Manchester did their set - the Izzie Walsh Band - , with Vito, and Corinna, who ran off to get into burlesque costume before I did much of a drawing of her.

Thanks to Frances for filling me in on the names I didn't know

Pub sign

I'm making a hanging sign for the front of a pub out of some floorboards in a frame. 

 

The sign hung jauntily by Shamus at the pub out behind the stock exchange. Drilling into the reinforced concrete was a bit of a challenge.

We're going to have to find some lairy pinstripes, and go have a look sometime

 

The good side finished

 

The side that bled a bit and had a gap or 2 in the masking, after retouching

The proof of the stencil to cut by one means or another, hopefully a laser

 

With a coat of blue

 

Assembled 

Router wasn't a goer sothe circular saw and a chisel had to make do.

What this thing is supposed to look like, kinda. Frame blue too

 of course. the good news is the text is almost all clear of the rustic gaps between boards

All the pieces, with the boards revealed by a bit of sanding with a flapdisk on the 180mm grinder . I asill have cut a grove with a router but Shamus's tiny toy one without handles doesn't inspire a lot of confidence and intermittently cuts out, and the larger handheld Ryobi that looks the goods doesn't switch on, so I'll stop to scratch my head while I get onto something else for the arvo

mmm, just had a look at the artwork to go on both sides, I'd only glanced at it previously and thought it was a stencil, but unfortunately its a bit more complicated than that, to do that I have to re lay out the small text in a stencil-able font, otherwise some signwriting

 

The cheaparse $80 compound mitre saw cut some wonky angles when I tried to make the frame pieces because its alignment bar is loose so I'll have to do some bodgy repair use a sliver of wood as a shim to continue.

I'll probably replace the bottom wide floorboard with another narrow one to get the size they're after, and it will look more balanced

Floorboard tabletops

 

Not sure if this is a table top or bottom - perhaps I'll have to mount it so it can be flipped!

 

One idea for a stand for the crescent floorboard table

 

 I had a plywood offcut this shape which I couldn't see much use for cut up so I used it to put some floorboard offcuts together. I'm not sure what to use it for now, aybe I'll hinge it off something as a sideboard, or maybe someone has a wall with a column that will fit it

 

Woodchips and a tabletop with filling

 

The same table after a sand, with pasteup dining table behind

 

A tabletop of many colours, kauri and other pines, red gum(?), assembled and sanded and waiting to have the cracks filled

 

Before sanding - floorboard crescent (its held together by a plywood offcut, with a couple more pieces of kauri to make it more rigid).

 

The chunky top of a small tablemade of 4x2 and 6x2(ie 100x50mm and 150x50mm) pieces of oregon, pine and hardwood

 

The other side - "island pine" and red hardwood floorboards- I'll probably mount it on a cafe tablebase and lacquer it with polyurethane, no linseed oil lying around at the moment

Dining Table

Making a dining(?) table from an old cedar staircase and some offcuts I've been glueing and occasionally screwing together. Links to all the various woodwork I've been doing lately are here

 

The top after a 2nd coat of polyurethane

 

A mad slice of oegon with a knot (as well as some kauri and cedar

 

The legs with a coat of varnish

 

The table with legs. I'm going away for a few days. When I get back I'll give the top another coat (at least) of polyurethane to fill the remaining tiny holes, and sand the legs a little bit more and coat them as well.

This table doesn't have a home as yet, so if you want it, get in touch. And of course I can make stuff to order, as long as its interesting,and the materials are at hand

 

Very shiny from this directions

 

The Cosmic Bones after a coat of polyurethane to bring out the colour

 

All the fill sanded back as well as the burnt surface after I gave it a once over with a clean dflapisk

 

After a sand to get rid of anything protruding above the surface and reveal and last spots that need filling, as well as te one hole where I belted a piece out of the front with the mallet while trying to get a pice to fit in the back when the tabletop was upside down

 

another view

 

a detail

 

legs

 

A smorgasbord with coffee, between courses

 

Upside down, sizing up legs

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a piece for Charles chair, with dodgy carving

 

I pushed out the blades on the makita plane and hacked away at all the timber and fill sitting too high and shattered a couple of weak pieces(mostly thinnish bits with the grain vertical), and knocked out a few others that had crappy glue bonds, or were not fully set .

Then I had a go with the big sander.

Anyway it starts to give an idea of what it will looked like finished and varnished

 

There are only a couple of little depressions left to fill in the cedar.  As soon as the glue dries I'll roughly plane off everything to table level, sand a little, then fill anything I missed  before a final plane and big sanding. Then slobber polyurethane all over it a couple of times. (Phew)

 

 

 Closeup, a jigsaw piece

 

All the slots etc are close to being filled now and I'm looking forward to planing it back and getting ready to finish it

 

I've glued some more woodscraps into the stair slots in the cedar panels.

Later on I'll fill in with sawdust and glue and more little bits of wood, then plane and sand it flat

 

A closeup `with more bits ready to glue, including old paintbrushes

 

Covered in tools and bits of wood I'm starting to glue in the slots

 

The main pieces assembled

 

Upside down and all clamped together