6th October 2019
The repair to the chair was quite a challenge, one of the back legs has snapped off.
The only solution was to fit a steel pin to join the pieces together, but the difficulty is to drill holes in both pieces that match so that everything aligns perfectly.
I made a drill fixture that could be clamped to both parts, and for the first time in my life they were perfectly aligned, I could hardly contain my excitement.
I celebrated with a cup of coffee and I raided the biscuits that we give to our Airbnb guests ( that have rapidly depleted since I got back, but I promise to replace them
I turned my attention to the gin bottles.
I had off cuts from my stairs treads that I thought would make good bases. The wood was as heavy as stone and still full of sap even after fifty years. I have never identified the species of tree, but there is a wonderful pine smell when it is cut.
The plan was to mount the bottles upside down with the neck pushed into a hole drilled into the wooden base. A string of LED lights could be fed into the bottle from the bottom and then the whole thing can be illuminated.
That was challenging, because each bottle neck was a different diameter, and the wood was bloody hard and quite waxy so quite difficult to sand or grind.
After many hours of painstaking work I had a selection of different bottles mounted on wooden bases.
Another Lifetime to go 