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    Default My printer stand project

    After our printer vibrated its way off the stool it was 'temporarily' sitting on, breaking a number of its plastic extremities, I was motivated to say enough was enough and that I should do something about it. I scrounged around the back of the shed to see what timber I had laying about, and came up with some various scraps, boards I'd used in concreting, some from an old 1850s cottage that was being demolished, and a quite heavy and unusual plank I got from a hoarders house I helped clean up.
    I finished it this morning so thought I'd put it up for public scrutiny....
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    My collection of scraps. The wide brown board was fitted as a door trim to a house built in the Adelaide Hills in about 1850, by now covered in many layers of paint, and likely to have come out to South Australia as ship's ballast, and probably baltic pine.

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    A day of ripping down and planing the timber scraps revealed some attractive pieces to work with.

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    Final coat of varnish this morning.
    The unusual plank turned out to be PurpleHeart, which I'd never heard of, and found it quite bizarre to machine it up brown in the morning and have it turn purple by the next morning.

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    To highlight the vertical slats I cut some scallops into the shelves, which may yet prove to be convenient for running cables
    With the exception of the PurpleHeart, all of the timber is between 100 and 170 years old, and a better result than ending up in the fireplace!

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    I like to see old bits of wood being used. Often a nice surprise under the surface.
    Good job on the stand.
    Regards
    John

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    Crikey! 1200 views and almost no comments either for or against. I guess it was a little too 'out there' with mixing the white and the purple and the baltic pine together, but hey, it was an interesting experiment

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