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Hi Paul I really like that, looks simple until you examine it a bit closer, a lot of work in that. Instead of spoiling it with a bit of tin, the last thing I made even remotely like it for outside, I used proper grey slates stuck on with black building adhesive (Think black, no nails or pink stuff) . It worked really well, and you could have the slates just overhanging slightly. Ian
I put slate on ours and in the first year it was fully sealed by bees, but last summer - nothing, then I read that they won't use the holes/tubes again if they haven't been cleaned or replaced. They also won't use houses that swing about on branches. I will be copying this design though - very impressive.
 
I made a watch box out of a sycamore off-cut a few months ago And it ended up just sitting on my bench. My sister in law asked if I could make her a matching jewellery box as a gift for her niece.

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Thought I would post this one despite it not being me that finished it today. My daughter just sent me this picture of a box she made. She sent the picture because she has finally put a danish oil finish on it, still no hinges though... She actually made the box, using hand tools, 17 years ago, and it has been unfinished since then. She flocked the inside at teh time she made it and has been using it to hold keep sakes ever since. Turns out she has been doing a bit of spoon carving for Christmas presents hence having the finish on hand.

Anyone else had/have a 17 year project on the go?
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Here she is during the actual making
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Must say my bench was looking a bit less dinged back then and I am wondering where my long straight edge went...
I started a shaker grandfather clock out of fiddleback sycamore in 2004 when I was at night school at Rycotewood College in Thame but it closed down before I could finish the case, so it's all dry stored in a box and will be finished when I get my new shop built.. sigh
 
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I build this bench for the entrance:
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a good replacement for the old one:
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Made the pattern out of birch 12mm plywood, took forever, but came out nice after the Danish oil

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Added oak to the corners...and brass rods for the shoe shelves - and done!

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I made this chest, quite large, because my wife needs a place to store my grandchildren's toys.
Now I get great pleasure watching my 2.5 year old grand daughter climbing on the front trying to reach in and get stuff out... she almost falls in herself..
Made from chestnut, ash and mahogany.
The handle in the centre of the lid is made from spalted cherry.
 

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I made this chest, quite large, because my wife needs a place to store my grandchildren's toys.
Now I get great pleasure watching my 2.5 year old grand daughter climbing on the front trying to reach in and get stuff out... she almost falls in herself..
Made from chestnut, ash and mahogany.
The handle in the centre of the lid is made from spalted cherry.

I especially love the brickwork effect on the sides.
 
Clearing out the photo's on my phone ready for a new year and found these I made about this time last year.

It's a door stop, two pieces of 1 1/2" round steel bar, (turned on the lathe + a bit of milling) that extend to the bottom of the base, which has lead shot in it. Can't remember now, but it must've weighed around 20lb.

Made for my boss at work.

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