@ Lady Bay, SA
Not, as far as I know, the original: a good facsimile…
We have hung it, for inpiration, in the north-west corner, where the old drafting table will find its new home.
That table has already provided the template (the heights and breadths) for a number of small boats long vanished, except in spirit….
Restored with cypress offcuts, fixed immoveably in place, and more or less shipshape.
It will be the heart of the boatshed….
Almost there.
One section to go on the northern wall – but I am running out of cypress….
Into the home strait….
Sam, Jonny,Pete and Daniel helped me with this project.
I was thankful for the additional muscle power: the bench has a weight to it, and prefers to remain in the one spot.
I think it already looks ‘at home’.
I will be engraving tiny end-grain blocks of wood on the raised part of the bench, in preparation for printing.
The special lamp can be adjusted for strength. I have found it improves eyesight by about 25%.
This is serious timber. We are currently working out a strategy for installation: it may be as simple as asking for help….
I had to add an extra length of about two metres, hence the half-joint.
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Well – this is as close as I’ll ever get to a ‘selfie’, and better than posing in front of a recently-slaughtered elephant, or some such barbarity.
Sam and I felt that doors are important, and that is why we have marked the occasion. As you can see, we didn’t have time to locate suits and ties.
Note the inherited and cherished Hammer, which went walkabout and was subsequently recovered, amidst much celebration and giving of thanks (see posting: Japanese Kozuchi Hammer, March 26th, 2017).
I have been gradually shifting tools (some from Dad’s collection, some from mine) into the boatshed. To my eyes, they already look as though they belong.
Still to come:
two work-benches, and the eighteen and a half foot Skiff (unfinished).