Weeks six and seven were spent making the trestles. The first, as I probably explained before, was to be made entirely by hand. The second, to involve machines where appropriate. Tellingly, the first trestle was finally finished on the Monday of week seven, having started during week five. The second trestle was finished by the Friday of the same week. The real time savings were in the planing/thicknessing of the components, routing the notches for the bird mouth joints (instead of sawing then chiselling the waste away), and using the drill press.
Here they are, the finished articles:
They are already proving useful in the workshop, and I will hopefully get around to giving them a coat or three of danish oil to attempt to offer them a bit of protection. Jane's (Jane is one of my fellow students) trestles are currently supporting the black walnut wood for our next project, which will be a decorative box. We've been doing some milling of the pieces on that:
This amused me: having been using machines on pine and then black walnut, the colour contrast in the bag from the shavings/dust extractor is striking.
The walnut, by the by, is looking glorious. I hope that I can do it justice.
We've also been doing some technical drawing for the next project, which is the first Big Deal: our workbenches. Based upon Jonathan's bench, with some modifications, we've learned the basics of technical drawing (without fretting about ISO standards etc.). I particularly enjoyed this exercise: something in the construction of such a drawing is deeply satisfying. Here is an orthographic projection, my first technical drawing since first year of university:
And here's an isometric exploded diagram of the tail vice we'll be building. I am extremely proud of this: exploded diagrams ain't easy, but I still did it!
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This is really impressive, and I love the diagrams. Well done!
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