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I Woke Up With Wood, Today

  • 03-08-2019 6:16pm
    #1
    Stigura
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    So, I mean; What's a man, alone, to do? Out with my big, pump action and I've been screwing so hard, all afternoon and evening, I'm now soaked in sweat and completely done in! Finished though!

    What ye reckon? Man's got to make use of himself. Right?

    Piney-Box.jpg

    That is definitely the biggest bloody next box I've Ever made. Or would like to. Because, I'll have to get that bad boy onto a narrow little flat roof I happen to have. (In honesty; I'll probably hook a rope through it and Drag it up there)

    It's made entirely of 19mm exterior ply. It's 22" high. 20" wide and 11" deep. Two full sized baffles, inside. It's basically half a sheet of ply. But, that's good though. Because it means, if ye screwed ye loaf, ye could get two out of a sheet.

    (God, I ache! So absolutely shattered, I can barely even think straight! The job just ran away with me. I could easily have cut it today and screwed it tomorrow. I just couldn't stop. I got a right moody on! :D)

    Not exactly certain what to do with it next. It needs weather proofing. Only, paint's so bloody expensive. And what colour?

    But, I Do have a practically full tin of Johnstones Wood Stain, in Natural Oak. I bought that for the cover I made for my Belfast sink. That now looks absolutely bloody gorgeous! God, did I choose the right colour! :) Pity to waste it .....

    Then, because it'll be outside facing all that nature can throw at it? I have a pot of Yacht Varnish here. Reckon that should do the trick.

    Anyway; This is the Industry Standard Piney Box. I got the plans from the Vincent Wildlife Trust. They've been making and trialing them for years.

    Use rough plank, as they suggest, for those two internals and I'm bloody Sure ye'd get two out of an 8x4' sheet of 18mm. Pine Martens don't run around with little tape measures on their belts. They're glad to take what they can get.

    PDF of the Vince plans.
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