Where is all the wood stuff

[sime42]

4 hours ago, organic guy said:

Part of an on going project

 

Steam bending Ash? What are you making?

[openspaceman]

48 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

Steam bending Ash? What are you making?

Looks like a chair back; add four beech legs with three stretchers, eight beech back spindles and a cleft oak splat, elm seat and you have a windsor chair.

Edited March 23 by openspaceman
forgot the seat

[sime42]

Maybe. The scale didn't look quite right though, too small.

 

What's the splat?

[sime42]

Got it, the central bit of the chair back. Why cleft oak though?

 

 

[organic guy]

6 spindles turned, repairs to an existing chair that somehow lost the top half.

[openspaceman]

12 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Got it, the central bit of the chair back. Why cleft oak though?

 

 

Tradition, most of the bits were made in the woods with hand tools and then assembled in a workshop.

[organic guy]

Finally got there, second attempt at bending the top.

Angle of back is not perfect and only slim ladies allowed to sit on it.

[sime42]

Not exclusively wood, but.

 

[spudulike]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

Not exclusively wood, but.

 

Nice job and the advice I speak is one of experience...as always. I made a bee hotel and was amazed by the uptake BUT....the bloody birds liked pulling out the bamboo bits so...a piece of wire grill over the front sorts this out...or glue the bamboo in place - perhaps you have and I am preaching to the vicar.

Good thing to do and they do actually work......a few long flowering salvias, cosmos, nasturtiums and marigolds nearby makes it really good. 

[sime42]

Thanks for the advice. I was reading about bird vandalism earlier. Also, my mum was thrilled a couple of years ago when she noticed that she had a woodpecker as a frequent visitor to the garden. Until she realised that it was only coming to peck the grubs out of the bee box!

I've had a couple of other boxes for years now and they've never suffered the same fate oddly. I'm primed to deploy some netting if any birds ever get any designs though.

 

Got the Salvias, Nasturtiums and Marigolds covered already.