Forgot to blog tonight so will make it a quick one a second coat of wood preserver added and prototype #1 is looking good but what to do with it… Started thinking about my next one with a different design and cheaper materials which will be saleable with hopefully a 50% profit margin Then there […]
It took me 40 minutes to do one coat of wood preservative tonight proving that if I had done it last night at 5pm when I finished the build I could have done a second coat too. The fact that I went with Jamie shopping for a couple of hours in the afternoon, yesterday, also […]
OK, I chose not to paint my “prototype” tonight not because I did not have time but because I just thought I wanted to take some photos of it in daylight before I do, but I did meet my deadline and could easily of done a couple of coats of wood preserve this evening. As […]
Trying to keep on track to make tomorrow nights deadline I made a late start in the shed and soon realised that the best tool to use to trim the sides to size wood be the router table which had sat in the corner since I bought it back in November and had not even […]
With all the wood bought and available I worked from the cutting list I had generated using https://www.opticutter.com/ and set about chopping it up soon realising just how good it was creating very minimal wastage meaning highly cost effective going forwards too Once I had gotten the wood for the sides and legs cut to […]
If I could make up a the perfect parent evening I would probably want all the teachers to light up when they saw Reagan walk towards them and sit down then I would want them to gush over her academic abilities and proceed to tell us that she is a joy to teach very conscientious […]
I did it, I bought the wood, I know what you’re thinking “So what, you’re always buying wood!” but this is a start to finish project no messing about get this thing built ‘It’s a planter for gods sake’ and I have set a dead line of Sunday night so it’s about staying focused and […]
Todays excuses, The wrong car, I went to Howarth Timber to look at stock and what sizes matched the plans I am going to work from. The cutting list says 2.4 metre lengths will be the optimum to produce the minimum of waste which is exactly what I need to achieve but that length will […]
Spent last night on me own downstairs watching TV, drinking water which at the time felt OK, and crying! Although I blogged that it was tough, it was breaking the habit of grabbing that early evening alcoholic beverage which was the tough bit, sitting on the couch watching TV was pretty easy! I had done […]
Day 1 of what I don’t know, I made a conscious decision not to drink today and I didn’t although it was harder than it should be but I have done it! Every journey begins with a first step…