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julianthegypsy
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No idea, but I'm intrigued!
I would have just screwed the bolt through one of the face plate slots which would have been easiest, unfortunately it would have given me a 2 1/2" bolt centre radius not the 2" I needed. This was the next easiest way.Nice set up
I will remember that one
Dr.Al
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Finished this today as a birthday present for my Mum's birthday. Anyone got an inkling what it might be?
Made out of birch plywood, beech dowels, a lump of beech for the feet and (obviously) some brass for the knob. Everything else is off-the-shelf hardware.
The guesses have dried up so I guess no one has an "inkling" what it might be, so I'll put you out of your misery.
It's an "Inkle Loom": a kind of weaving loom that can make relatively long (up to 4 metres on this one) but quite narrow (maybe 80 mm wide at a push) material. It makes fairly robust material, so gets used for things like bag straps, belts and even shoelaces. You can make quite varied patterns on it using a process called tablet weaving. That's about all I know about it!
There are some photos of a commercial one with the yarn on here: https://www.fibrehut.co.uk/products/inkle-loom
Onoff
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Quite a good story that.
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What is all the 'other' s***e inside the door,
Is it to soak up the water !
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Some strong shelf brackets with a rustic look to support a recycled plank.
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^^Those.
Are awesome.
Are awesome.
Ahh the life of the rich forum members
Fence between my and my delightful neighbour is rotten, and as I've been stuck home feeling grotty with Covid, I've started to build a new fence between my block-built store shed & the house wall (3.8 metres).
I already had the uprights and cross-pieces, so I've built the frame ready for the palings.
Thinking of trying to route an overlap lip into the palings, so I can have a "solid" fence with no gaps, but the overlaps able to "float" over each other to allow for expansion/contraction without buckling/distorting???? Will that work OK I wonder.
Also planning to "cap" the fence with palings to protect the timber ends from water ingress & rot.
I already had the uprights and cross-pieces, so I've built the frame ready for the palings.
Thinking of trying to route an overlap lip into the palings, so I can have a "solid" fence with no gaps, but the overlaps able to "float" over each other to allow for expansion/contraction without buckling/distorting???? Will that work OK I wonder.
Also planning to "cap" the fence with palings to protect the timber ends from water ingress & rot.
pedrobedro
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Neither of you will be able to get to the back side of your fence to paint or whatever you finish it with.
Correct. A deeply unpleasant old bat who seems to get a perverse enjoyment out of being as bad & Inconsiderate a neighbour and individual as she can manage.
She's that obnoxious that her of her 2 sons and their families that live nearby - only 1 son (on his own) ever (rarely) visits, and the rest won't have anything to do with her.
You could easily fit a small child with a paintbrush down that gap.
