Another Simple Success!

Hello Folks,

Today we finished our kitchen/dining table and we think it's pretty sweet.

Follow the photos below to witness the magic.....

We started off with rough cut planks of Ash wood that we bought from "Roger-the-wood-dude", up the road.

We put them through our thicknesser and they were incredibly beautiful.

Below you can see how we made the frame. We routed out grooves in the legs to put the frame together so it holds the legs nice and tight.

Here's the frame put together.

Then yesterday we moved everything from our workshop to upstairs - it's all very very heavy indeed. Below you can see the table top starting to take shape, just needs the end pieces now.

Here you can see the tongue that we routed in the centre pieces and then we routed the groove in the end pieces so they all fit together.

Here it is in all its glory, having been oiled.

And some close ups of the grain.

The Ash is such strong and beautiful wood.

I don't want to brag, but we rock hard.

We're having a day off today, we feel we have deserved it.

Nikki

stove unit - done!

good afternoon fine people,

we haven't found much time to update things blogwise recently and so we hope you all enjoy this latest offering.

the unit we built around the stove has been mostly finished for some time but only actually finished for a couple of days (and we still haven't built the door as we're waiting for the chestnut to fully dry/acclimatise before we build that).

here are a couple of shots of the stove in place before we started (note the untidy pipework that needed to be covered):



and:



the frame was then built (with a sheet of fermacell to shield the frame from the heat):



and:



here's how it looks finished:



and from the other side:



close-up:



and:



finally, loaded with our pots and pans:



we're much happier with it than we thought we were going to be - it mighty fine.

it's another success!!!

one more thing.....here is a shot of the view from the patio windows out over the vegetable garden.

after well over a month of solid snow/ice and nearing a point of almost being able to use the road to get the car out (upwards - at present we're having to head down the track which is pretty tricksy) it snowed again!

about 10cm since yesterday with more forecast - no early spring for us.



later, gairy.