Another day of building was here and I made my way over to the stables. Between 10am and 3pm, I carried on the endeavour of pigeon-holing the boot shelves. This session was about making the front layer. With the rear layer ready for edging and varnishing, I used the sides of the front layer for measuring, ready to hand cut both horizontal and vertical sections.
By the end, I had created the majority of it but had the misfortune of one shelf ‘end’ breaking when slotting it together. I still needed to cut the notches out of the vertical panels, but fitted them in just to get an image of what it would look like.
Making the shelf panels was hard work. I fastened them into the work bench and used my hacksaw to cut out the usual end pieces. I then had to cut out the notches for the uprights to go into. It was tough, but due to the spruce wood’s grain, I cut them down each side and snapped them off. A couple of them needed to have the last bits chiselled, to tidy them up.
It looks like little has been done, but it was a lot of work, with power tools not used for cutting, due to keeping the noise down when lessons were happening. This is truly hand made, with my trusty Dremel being used as a micro sander. The next session will be about dressing it and varnishing it all over, not to mention the replacement of the broken shelf and last notches cut out. I will then begin to create the same build style across the other wall. I feel that the more I do, the more refined the process is getting.
