>and it has. Every evening I turn the framework round and glue and clamp another section. This evening I’ll glue the tabletop onto it. I must clear up the table to let me do that safely and out the way of the boys! Meantime I seem to have resolved my issues with my book. I… Continue reading >I said it’d go quiet
Author: Graham H Miller
>Table-top mock up
> Table-top mock upOriginally uploaded by graham_h_miller Well. Finally I have come to the end of all the sawing and chiseling and have the framework assembled. It’s all (roughly) flush. At the moment it’s very slow as I only have three G-clamps, even with a bit of borrowing. So I’m using the work-bench to clamp… Continue reading >Table-top mock up
>Another good day
>Really making progress now. Got a lot of the woodworking done today. I think I have five more joints to cut and then I’ll have to buy more wood glue and borrow as many G clamps as I can find to put it all together. Also put the chamfers on the edges of the beams… Continue reading >Another good day
>The Equivalancy of Triangles
>Well the cardboard pyramid is proving to be as strong as I hoped – the boys find it greatly entertaining as they find new holes through which they can poke things. The sooner I finish and seal it off the better. Today I’ve been thinking about the table top. I’m making up a frame that… Continue reading >The Equivalancy of Triangles
>Cardboard Pyramid
>Well I let the glue set for all of its 24 hours to be on the safe side, because I was nervous about folding it up into a pyramid. I could see that it would just want to spring apart and it felt very stiff. Luckily I had scored the tabs and it folded up… Continue reading >Cardboard Pyramid