SAW
CYPRESS LINING 2
I am working on three fronts at present: the entrance, the northern weatherboards, and the cypress lining.
I proceed cautiously with the entrance; it is unfamiliar territory. The cladding for the doors (10mm tongue and groove Cypress) arrives this week.
Weatherboard goes up easily enough on the fine days.
The cypress lining can be tricky. I have had my moments; a few boards had to be removed and replaced, with much ado. You may be wondering why the lining stops at about two metres (six feet five inches), and there is a simple explanation – that top point marks the extent of my ‘current financial capacity’.
Later on I will be able to climb to the ceiling, if some of those wooden spoons can find worthy homes….
SPOON
THE STORMS KEEP SWEEPING IN….
SHAPING THE DOORS
It has been interesting to watch these doors emerge – from where, I cannot say (perhaps from a sort of internal blueprint, the details of which come to light as required).
There are sixteen half-lap joints in each door.
The screws are made of silicon-bronze, and will be hidden from view. I hope to use cypress or baltic pine floorboards, fixed vertically within the outside frames of the doors, for cladding.
Every day, a new aspect of the blueprint is revealed. I am assuming that it is, indeed, a workable and coherent Plan….
TOMIKICHIRO TOKURIKI
CYPRESS LINING
I am constructing the first of the double doors, in a roundabout sort of way. I have never made a door, and don’t have a set of construction plans. No doubt there are plenty of plans online, but somehow it seemed easier to not find them, and just muddle through – so that is what I am doing: making it up as I go, and just muddling through.
Let’s hope it works out….
From time to time I tackle the cypress lining, for a bit of light relief. I want to get the southern and western sections of wall properly covered, before we install the work benches – otherwise, it will never be done.
(While building the little wooden cottage on Fork Tree Road, I moved in without finishing the details. That was a mistake – a big mistake – which I hope to avoid this time round.)
I will post photos of the door when there is a door to photograph.
OGATA KORIN
BANSKIA SCRUB 2
Back in January Sam and I collected seed from the Banskia Scrub, and now we have a small forest of seedlings.
The Wirilda seedlings (Acacia retinoides) grew quickly; we planted them in the Paddock a few weeks ago.
Here in the photo, on the left, is a pot of the Southern Cypress Pine, Callitris preissi; in the middle, Drooping Sheoak, Allocasuarina verticillata; on the right, a miscellany including sheoak, and Moonah, Melaleuca lanceolata.
The grass trees, Xanthorrhoea, have not emerged – yet.
Muntries, Kunzea pomifera, failed – but I can propagate it from cuttings, with a bit of luck.