Its been a busy few weeks

[sunnybob]

First, I managed to finish the pergola for the love seat set;

Then i made a small treasure chest from an offcut for my grandkids to play with;

and yesterday I finished the mantle piece clock;

It has a compartment at the rear;

;

which pulls out like this;

but then that has a secret drawer in the rear of it;

My project list is blank for the next week at least now.

 

[Brian18741]

Very cool, great work!

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[sunnybob]

Ha. so much for having a blank project list.
2 friends fought over my yin yang box. The loser sold me a sob story about his wifes birthday and he needed a special gift for her.

The birthday is THIS friday! All hands to the pump.

 

[n0legs]

Love the clock =D>
To be fair, all of it looks great Bob =D>

 

[monkeybiter]

All to the usual great standard Bob, that treasure chest has a nice art deco shape to the ends, might make a nice shape for the front of a bandsaw box?
Just spotted the secret drawer in the clock, very nice!

 

[sunnybob]

The treasure chest was the cast off from the top drawer in the clock compartment. I really like it.
I like the clock, but can you believe the electric mechanism TICKS! Its so loud we can hear it even over an action adventure movie.
After two evenings on the sideboard its just gotta go.
A neighbour likes it, and he's deaf, so thats a win win situation.

 

[JSW]

That pergola/love seat is really nice, love the way you incorporated it into the corner of the wall, insted of the obvious 'flat-to-the-middle of-wall' look. That's a hit one/miss one fence arrangement? can't recall the name, but allows wind through etc but not line of sight, nice.

Great choice of colours also, that med blue on the chairs is very striking, lovely contrast. I feel suddenly all inspired!

 

[monkeybiter]

I made an Oak clock to match our kitchen cupboards, AWO, square frame around perspex and jointed Oak face using an electric mech., very accurate but also loud ticky thing.

Err... another blue paint lover!

 

[DTR]

Very nice =D>

 

[sunnybob]

All to the usual great standard Bob, that treasure chest has a nice art deco shape to the ends, might make a nice shape for the front of a bandsaw box?
very nice!

Mike, that treasure chest IS a bandsaw box.

It was the cut out from the clock top drawer. Using the bandsaw I cut the lid off, then scooped out the internal space.
Drilled through the lid and inserted a 5 mm brass rod, held in by blind holes in the end pieces which were off cuts from previous boxes. used the bandsaw again to cut the sides to the shape of the box, then heavily sanded it all to shape.

 

[Alexam]

Really excellent work Bob. Lovely choice of woods. What part of Cyprus are you in?
Malcolm

 

[sunnybob]

Malcolm, south east corner(ish).

 

[Farmer Giles]

Nice work Bob! Both me and the missus are into making not buying so may make our coffins out of old scraps of wood from odd projects at some point. A bit big for a bandsaw box me thinks, unless I buy a bigger bandsaw..........

 

[sunnybob]

you've fallen into the mind set of most people when it comes to bandsaw sizes, and forgotten about GLUE.
You cut the thing in sections, then glue them together, and (if youre not dead yet) sand the joins smooth.

No one will notice at the funeral, they'll all be too busy dividing up your assets.

 

[monkeybiter]

I'm just going to have myself veneered.

 

[sunnybob]

Once I'm dead, and to paraphrase W.C.Fields.....

Frankly my dear, I dont give a dam.

 

[sunnybob]

HAH, 3 hours old and no one picked me up on a wrong quote.
So, are you not as smart as me, or do you not care?

Either way, once I'm gone I'm gone.

 

[monkeybiter]

Clark Gable, and it's spelled 'damn'! Hah yourself!

 

[sunnybob]

I've had so many words sanitised on this site I didnt think damn had a hope in hell.

I was half way through sunday roast when my brain woke up and I realised it was gone with the wind. Hah! maybe the wind was what made the connection for me.

 

[Farmer Giles]

We went to the curry house for Sunday "roast" and today the Italian Job springs to mind "you're only supposed to blow the b****y doors off"