Woodwork (5 photos)

Well, I finished building my sawhorses and I am quite pleased. I learned a lot from the exercise – I think more about what not to do next time rather than what to do. The sawhorses are held together with tapered mortises, tenons and wedges – no glue, nails or screws. Very strong.

There is method in my madness – the horses are so big I may have to expand my workshop just to store them!

The darker wood is red cedar, the lighter spruce

Mortise and Tenon

Teak wedges expand the tenon inside the tapered mortise to hold everything tight

Exposed Tenon

 

Joinery

The Buck Stops Here

After a frenzied few weeks of rutting season our resident senior buck came by to rest up on the lawn. A couple of the ladies walked by but he showed little interest so all should be calm until next year.

Workshop

With our cold, and rainy weather right now the workshop is the perfect place to be. The work in progress are a pair of sawhorses constructed with joinery – mortised, tenoned and wedged with no glue, nails or screws. I have spent my life telling myself I didn’t have the precision to do such work but when I recently reached the ripe age of 65 I figured what the heck. Lo and behold they are turning out okay. Just goes to show we are usually our own worst enemies.

Puzzled

A box therefore Mocha

Forest

Fading Hydrangea