{"id":1649,"date":"2012-03-15T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-01-13T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:55:53","slug":"blackwood-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Blackwood shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new project includes curves. I neglected to pass muster for a curvy construction last year as the TARDIS didn’t really have any in it. Just like my second year organic chemistry exam where I knew the molecular structure of all the vitamins except that the examiners didn’t ask it, so too I think I strove too high with the TARDIS…<\/p>\n

So, I sourced some blackwood from Smiths Sawmill in Naringal and spent the last couple of classes dressing it up. It is magnificent timber and if you’d asked me before I knew, I’d have said that any grey timber was probably only fit for firewood. But trim away a bit, square it up on the buzzer, make it parallel on the thicknesser and then smooth it through the drum sander and my gosh the results!<\/p>\n

I had to glue up some smaller planks to make wider ones for shelves. the start of my curvy project looks a little square right now…<\/p>\n