Stubchain
14th June 2010, 06:26 PM
Well it's been nearly a year since I did any actual work in my workshop. Won't bore you with the details but it's to do with knees and knee replacements.
It's my grandsons 5th birthday soon so I thought I would make him a second Thomas the Tank Engine (wooden railway) roundhouse. He has one at our place but not at home.
This one would be a lot easier as I had something to go by, the original was made up as I went along.
The hardest part is trying to match the turntable connections exactly to roundhouse and to ensure that the "tracks" are machined correctly.
Everything was going fantastically, did the connection and started on the track grooves, there are 10 of them, two per track. Go a couple done, fairly simple although I had to consentrate on where I was clapping the straight edge for the 1/4 bit in the router.
So SWMBO walks in and starts wittering on about something in the local paper, what about this, what about that. Next thing I know I'm routing a groove on the wrong side of the line. It's all painted anyway so I got myself out of trouble with a glued up strip of wood.
I had forgotten how easy it is to get distracted, next time she comes in while I'm working everything is going to stop till she leaves.
It's my grandsons 5th birthday soon so I thought I would make him a second Thomas the Tank Engine (wooden railway) roundhouse. He has one at our place but not at home.
This one would be a lot easier as I had something to go by, the original was made up as I went along.
The hardest part is trying to match the turntable connections exactly to roundhouse and to ensure that the "tracks" are machined correctly.
Everything was going fantastically, did the connection and started on the track grooves, there are 10 of them, two per track. Go a couple done, fairly simple although I had to consentrate on where I was clapping the straight edge for the 1/4 bit in the router.
So SWMBO walks in and starts wittering on about something in the local paper, what about this, what about that. Next thing I know I'm routing a groove on the wrong side of the line. It's all painted anyway so I got myself out of trouble with a glued up strip of wood.
I had forgotten how easy it is to get distracted, next time she comes in while I'm working everything is going to stop till she leaves.