Thursday, July 12, 2007

Cutting corners

I spent the day on fiddly bits for the window. I needed to make some retaining strips for the window in its frame. Because of the curves I was hoping for a flexible metal solution, but nothing seemed to be exactly right, so I shaped up some curved strips to fit all round. The trickiest bits were the corners, with the grain running in the best orientation possible. Tricky in the shop, so even trickier and more time consuming on site, so worth getting out of the way. The shaping is easy enough with the bandsaw and the little belt sander. It doesn't really matter how small the part is, it takes just about as long to make. Rain every day here, and a typhoon on its way up. Also a couple of jolts from an earthquake last night.