Thread: SWMBO's first project

It is always a pleasure to have the wife in the shed. I spent time with her making a couple of coat racks.

Yeh, I really enjoyed SWMBO'S company and her involvement today

Next step might be to get her signed into here.
I'd like to read her perspective on the project.
Good for her! The block should be a pleasure to use.

Originally Posted by Christos

It is always a pleasure to have the wife in the shed. I spent time with her making a couple of coat racks.

You don't know my SWMBO. Lovely lady that she is. It just wouldn't work!!

Can you show us a bit more of that clamp please? that looked interesting - very strong, quite solid

Glad you got your missus into the shed - did you let her do anything?

How did she feel about being there? That's even more interesting

Hey Jill,
I'll take a couple of closeups of the clamps for you when I take them off the block.

I encouraged Chele to do what ever she wanted, but Chele said at this stage she is still a bit dicey about high speed spinning blades etc. Perfectly understandable I recon.

Anyway, I had already glued the rough boards together so we had something to go on with. We started by running them through the drum sander to even out the high & low spots, & then we proceded to set up the saw to cross cut the boards.

Chele was happy to catch & stack & as I said, not keen & this stage to come around to the business end of the saw. Then I showed her why we flip every second strip & we set up the clamps together, & laid out the old Glad Bake.

Chele was right in on the glue up & clamp up & then we had to set that aside.

I wasn't over happy with the setup on my Drum Sander, so we spent about an hour playing with that, & that was about it for the first day. Just a couple of hours.

Next week will be interesting for her when the block goes from rough saw cuts to a smooth & shiny finish.

Chele seemed to enjoy our productive time together in the shed, but was a bit boared with setting up the drum sander... can't say I blame her, but it had to be done.

Steve