Woodworking projects.

[Bhuna50]

OK - we have seen new threads for discussion on food, cooking and for book club , and what with the Woodworking game being mentioned in another thread, lets show off some woodworking skills:

For now, I will just post my window seat - as this was my first ever project having not done any woodwork since leaving school in 1987 - in fact probably a couple of years before that so some 35 years later I threw together a window seat. Come on lets have a look at your attempts - successes and failures

Before:

After:

It is removable too and not attached to the wall and even takes my weight (21 stone )

I'll add more to this thread soon with my other projects that after doing this I moved straight onto LOL.

 

[Tron1982]

did you lost a dog during the process ?

 

[Bhuna50]

did you lost a dog during the process ?

what do you think the two cupboards are for but thought I would leave the one in place for now

No - just one wanted to pose for the photo - the other was asleep on the sofa - didnt trust me that it wouldnt break when i sat on it

 

[SpyderTracks]

what do you think the two cupboards are for but thought I would leave the one in place for now

No - just one wanted to pose for the photo - the other was asleep on the sofa - didnt trust me that it wouldnt break when i sat on it

I really like that approach to woodwork with quite substantial beams, makes it look much more solid and raw.

I have a dream to buy a slab of raw tree one day and plain it down into a very rough but polished coffee table. A friend of my parents has quite a substantial woodworking setup in his garage which I'm hoping he may allow me to use and show me some pointers.

I love wood, it's such a beautiful material.

 

[Bhuna50]

The annoying thing with the dogs is that they started to dig up around the side of our patio outside our back door where I had just got gravel down on the edges, so I decided that Project I should start in the garden.

This was to remove all the small gravel edging, regrout the top patio, put a raised flower bed in which turned out to be a raised flower bed and a bar going in with the view that the lower patio area (small step down to it) would be replaced with Project II the next year.

This is what it looked like to start:

cheating a bit I know but raised flowerbeds need the breeze blocks which was soon cladded over:

But the bar was pure wood frame and decking and JD :

The finished look of the flowerbed itself:

This now confined the dogs to the top section of the patio and long side path too for any "mess" they wanted to do out here.

 

[Martinr36]

I got banned from the wood workshop when i was at school...............

 

[Bhuna50]

I also had some battens left over too and made a picket archway for the bottom of the garden - as the one that you can see at the top of the garden will be disappearing in Phase II of the project

 

[AgentCooper]

It’ll be a while before I can post anything, as I mentioned in the other thread all my tools are in storage up north. When I made the move to Cambridge to study I simply didn’t have the room for them. Now I finally have a house with a garage I’ve got a good space for a workshop but lockdown struck so my plans to get them have been on indefinite hold.

I don’t use power tools with the exception of an electric drill, there’s a certain sense of satisfaction doing it that way. It’s also cheaper and better cardio!

@SpyderTracks - if you’re looking to get into it there’s a couple of resources I’d recommend: a book called ‘The Minimalist Woodworker’ by Vic Tesolin. And if you head onto YouTube there’s a guy called Paul Sellers who is fantastic.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCc3EpWncNq5QL0QhwUNQb7w

 

[Bhuna50]

Lockdown has made me go out and do most of this

It was with money we had spent on holidays for my 50th but got cancelled LOL

I've used drill and occassionally mitre saw to get angles to the seat frameworks, but most has been manual sawing, chiselling of joints (for framework to my bench seating I have done on the decking etc). I did cheat though - I bought dowels and didnt make my own.

Unfortunately no garage so couldnt actually have that much electrical wise outside LOL especially in the rain

 

[Bhuna50]

Forgot to add - electric screwdriver too.

Project II - the decking / BBQ area - all roughly designed out first on a freebie program - which i cant remember what it was called LOL:

This is what we started with:

Seating framework:

BBQ area counters framework (part done):

electrical lighting in and plug points in too:

Partly finished but ran out of time before first party out of lockdown for the first down so had a 21st birthday to celebrate:

All finished:

 

[Bhuna50]

 

[Bhuna50]

It didnt quite match the plan but near enough to be happy with it. basically, gave up on the thought of raised flower beds at the end and no firepit in the middle of the seating - couldnt find a fire safe one LOL

and shock horror, its still standing LOL

 

[AgentCooper]

For projects that size I don’t begrudge you using some power tools! It’d take you forever doing it all manually! Fine work, @Bhuna50! 👍👍👍

 

[Bhuna50]

Cant wait to have a proper party now - had a small gathering for a 21st half way through but no one has been able to visit for months now LOL

 

[SpyderTracks]

Cant wait to have a proper party now - had a small gathering for a 21st half way through but no one has been able to visit for months now LOL

It's not far off, in the words of gold leader - "almost there.... almost there.... it's away!"

 

[Tron1982]

DAMN !
what a lovely (beer) garden you have now !

 

[Bhuna50]

DAMN !
what a lovely (beer) garden you have now !

Funny you should say that. Unfortunately I’m struggling to fit the beer keg.

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[Deleted member 41971]

slight sidenote, this is not anything to do with me, but I found this woodworking sculpture on a forum, I thought it was stunning