Recent content by Baball

A desk for my 7 year old daughter. I reused a chest of drawers I made a few years ago, and made the desktop and other leg out of oak. Finished with Osmo polyx raw. First time using plugs to fill a few voids and threaded inserts to attach the top to the leg and drawers. She now has a nicer desk...

6 months later they are finally on the wall! I went with a combination of scholar's suggestion for a batten at the bottom, and some brass brackets at the top. I used 4mm dominoes in the batten to locate and hold the box. I decided not to use brass screws in the wall, as I couldn't face...

Thanks Max Power, I'm pleased to say she was. It was quite fiddly to spray, and I said to my wife I'm never spraying anything like that again. My other daughter has now asked for one too, although she asked if it can be big enough for her to get in :ROFLMAO:

For her birthday, my daughter wanted a bunk bed for her dolls. Loathed to buy more plastic, I succeeded in getting the commission to make one. Pine and MDF, spray painted.

They look different to the 204308 that I use in my CTL midi:

From back in June; made 5 of these bee hotels as gifts.

Two live edge elm shelves, with oak and elm brackets. The shelves are heavy so fingers crossed the brackets do their job and it all stays up!

I've had good results spraying Cuprinol garden shades with a Fuji mini mite 4 and a 1.8mm tip, didn't need thinning at all. Not sure about constant water contact but then I would think a planter has some kind of lining anyway.

Thanks TomGW. Do you mean to drill a small (the oak is 9mm thick) hole in the back of the uprights that would accept the filed down screwhead?

Thanks Bristol_Rob. I'm now thinking some brackets like these combined with the baton scholar suggested.

Thanks scholar, I like this idea a lot. I'm now wondering if I could make something useful of the baton underneath, perhaps turn it into somewhere to hang some items from.

Thanks paulrbarnard. How would that work? Peanuts on the wall, and corresponding holes on the box?

Yeah I would be nervous trying to route out the 9mm thickness.

Ha! OK, I actually thought it was a good idea; I've used the command strips before and they were pretty good. Yeah brackets like that could work well, I'll see what I can find in brass.

Thanks ChaiLatte. Keyhole hangers would be elegant, but so far I can only find them about 16mm wide. Velcro is also a great idea, would be simple and quite possibly strong enough.