Skipper's Boat-Building Blog
Comment Plenty of elephant left More tidying and more experimenting. As I continue to clear the garage I keep finding wood which is no use for boat building but very good for shelves, cupboards and benches so, the paint cupboard is finished and I've also created a fold-away bench from a length of kitchen work surface. This will help when I remove the very large existing bench which has always prevented me from getting a car in there (well, that and the couple of tons of junk I used to keep in there too). An old Hi-Fi cabinet has been sawn in half to make 2 wall storage units and I've put up another wood rack for the shorter lengths. A spare roll of carpet has been hoisted up to the roof using an old metal washing line pole and some wooden hangers. And a basket ball hoop now acts as a very convenient clamp store. I really love to use up this left-over stuff rather than throw it away. I wonder if I should worry about how much weight is now hanging from the roof? Those clamps, by the way, although a brilliant idea and really handy have a disappointing tendency to explode if you try to clamp them over too much wood. What is the point of making them big enough to fit over a bigger section than the plastic body can cope with? Well, you get what you pay for I suppose, they were cheap but are costing me a fortune and the way they quite literally throw plastic shrapnel around the garage when they fail I could very easily end up in A&E. Index ----- Next