Thread: The Birmingham Way

After nearly three months of absence from the workshop owing to the very unpleasant spell of winter weather this year I returned to woodwork.
The temperature is now a respectable 15c and the humidity is dropping to below 70% also the working muscles have been seizing up owing to lack of activity.



The first job was to replace these two old plastic tubs with a wooden planter designed to accommodate the slope.



Therefore a piece of 9x2" (rescued from a skip) was put to the Triton workcentre which has become my ripsaw tool again after two attempts at using those Chinese type cast iron table saws.



The band saw was then put through its paces, (I only remembered to release the wheel tension last week after the three months on its full tension) so I used the marking gauge and run down both sides of the timber looking for a centreline and created a trenching line around 2 mm. The timber is just over 4" depth and to my satisfaction the band saw sliced this wood perfectly, it didn't deviate once from the centre line on it cutting length of around 1 metre. So I reckon the blade had been stretched nice and straight on its rested period.



The boards after cutting on the bandsaw.



The planter was then put together the Birmingham way and now awaiting a dry spell to put on the preservative. By the way the temperature has gone down and the humidity is back to 80% today. Ah well at least the muscles have had a work out and not so painful today.


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