MikeG.
Established Member
Obviously, if you are going to build a folly you need some octogons:
and a jig to make them on:
Then you would need to cut some points on the octagons:
using this jig:
Next, the pointy octagons would need shoulders:
made on this jig:
And this is what you end up with:
Lots and lots of morticing later, you get to cut the odd tenon or two:
Stick it all together, hoist it up in the air, then prop it with a few bits of wood:
.......and that, with a nod towards classical architecture and Camelot, is the gazebo/ pergola thingy I have been making over the last few weekends. Just the staining to do, and the creepers can then set about hiding the whole thing.
Previously, the decking area (which is in fact a bridge over a stream), just had the 4 corner posts sticking up in the air waiting for me to get inspired.
This is displacement activity because my competition piece has not been going very well.....
Mike
and a jig to make them on:
Then you would need to cut some points on the octagons:
using this jig:
Next, the pointy octagons would need shoulders:
made on this jig:
And this is what you end up with:
Lots and lots of morticing later, you get to cut the odd tenon or two:
Stick it all together, hoist it up in the air, then prop it with a few bits of wood:
.......and that, with a nod towards classical architecture and Camelot, is the gazebo/ pergola thingy I have been making over the last few weekends. Just the staining to do, and the creepers can then set about hiding the whole thing.
Previously, the decking area (which is in fact a bridge over a stream), just had the 4 corner posts sticking up in the air waiting for me to get inspired.
This is displacement activity because my competition piece has not been going very well.....
Mike