The Woodshop Shed

Symposium Award

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


As simple as this project is, it has taken me almost 6 weeks to make it. A friend who is somewhat aware of my TBI asked me if this project was within my abilities. Being optimistic, I said sure and started on it right away. I almost didn't make the deadline because we had a severe weather event that took out the power to our house for 8+ days.I started with just the digital image shown as the last photo. I displayed it on my phone and used a variety of tricks to lay out a cardboard pattern for it. These shapes were then cut out in some salvaged 1970s vintage plywood panelling; this is an ideal use for that wood. I made the plywood pieces to use as patterns for future copies of this project. There may be a few more of them someday.All of the stock was resawn and hand planed to finished dimensions. The pieces were all trimmed and fit together using hand tools. A custom glue-up jig helped a lot with this part. The only electrons used in the project were for the hot-glue gun that I used to hold the fiddly little pieces while I was fitting them to each other. The smallest of the pieces are just over 3/4” of 5/16” stock.There were the mandatory mistakes and learning moments along the way and I did manage to bleed on it a little, but I like how it turned out and I really enjoyed making this one.

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