We needed a mirror........

[MikeG.]

We just couldn't find what we were looking for, so my wife suggested I build it instead. So, I toddled off into the workshop, raided my off-cuts bin for some oak, and this is what I came up with:

Unless there is a good reason not to, I always do shoulders all around when doing M&Ts. Here, with these tiny mortises, the shoulders hide the damage done by levering the waste out of the joint. I was just about to scribe the shoulders for a really nice tight fit when a thought occurred to me. After a quick sketch on the back of a piece of scrap, I carried on:

I was just making this stuff up as I went along. I really enjoy doing that, but it doesn't always end well. We'll see:

I made this composite moulding because I don't have a spindle moulder, and my friend who does wasn't available. So, I had to come up with something I could do on my router table. Ideally I would have had a simple cove instead. Ho hum....

.....and a French cleat to hold the bottom in:

After a quick trip to the glaziers (who had three goes at cutting it!!), and £10 later:

 

[Tasky]

Yep - If I was in the market, I'd happily buy one of them!!
Excellent job, Mike!

 

[MikeG.]

Thanks Tasky. I didn't count, but looking back it was at least 15 hours work........which means it cost more money than anyone would ever pay for a mirror. I shan't be going into production.

 

[custard]

Looks like it was absolutely made to hang right there...

...which of course it was!

Great job =D>

 

[MikeG.]

Thanks Custard. It was made to go with the floor, which is a dark oak.

 

[John15]

Excellent job Mike. Congratulations.

John

 

[ColeyS1]

That's a beauty ! Very smart job Mike

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[MikeG.]

Thanks John.

 

[Marineboy]

Beautiful work.

You really should change that plaster on your thumb though.

 

[MikeG.]

Beautiful work.

You really should change that plaster on your thumb though.

Yeah, but more fundamentally, I should probably avoiding jabbing it with the corner of a chisel in the first place.

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Lovely work Mike, it looks fantastic. I especially like the comment that you "made it up as you went along" :lol: - if I did that, I'd end up with firewood and sawdust #-o

Obi Wan ccasion5:

 

[Steve Maskery]

I'll be honest, Mike, when I saw you gluing those corner pieces in I thought "Arrgghh! Ghastly bodge. What is he thinking?!"
But When I see the context and the end result, I think it looks excellent and would be happy to have produced it.

And as to sticking things into your digits, I'm having a new kitchen (I'm gophering for a real fitter) and today I went to do some retail therapy. Far too many saucepans and a new set of knives later I did my first bit of cooking this evening for nearly three weeks. The knives are very sharp. Fingernails grow at about 0.1mm per day, so my left first finger will be fine again by about the end of September.

 

[MikeG.]

Thanks Obi, Steve.

I reckon that's about 10mm you've removed then Steve. How was the gravy?

 

[DTR]

Wow! I agree with Steve, at first glance those corner pieces look a bit odd. But when the mouldings are added and it all comes together, it looks amazing! =D> =D> =D>

 

[MikeG.]

Thanks Dave.

 

[Newbie_Neil]

That's beautiful Mike, you must have one very happy lady.

Neil

 

[Jamster21]

I think that's great too, and I was further reassured to see that I am not alone with a shed / workshop that might need a tidy...

 

[transatlantic]

hmmm ... I don't like the way this is going ....(few pics later) WOAH that looks cool!

 

[MikeG.]

I think that's great too, and I was further reassured to see that I am not alone with a shed / workshop that might need a tidy...

Yeah, it's not really a workshop at the moment so much as a building site overflow zone. I couldn't get to the RAS or the pillar drill at all.

 

[Chippyjoe]

Mike, that's really nice. When I was going through the WIP's was really hoping it was going to have a bevelled edged mirror, but on reflection (No pun intended) it would not have worked.

You must have earned a serious amount of brownie points, or TV time especially now the cricket season is upon us.

Mark.