I had grand plans for today. It is the final day of the Melbourne Timber and Wood Working show, pretty much the only wood working show in Victoria all year, definitely the biggest and best at least. I’ve been looking forward to it for months.
I had to work all through the WW show weekend so arranged for my Sunday shift to be covered so I could spend the last day there. The plan was going well, until morning came and I found my little 3 year old boy coughing up a storm and throwing up everywhere. Bugger. Oh well, I’ll never choose my hobby over my kids, so I cancelled my plans and stayed home to help take care of him. Not fair to leave my wife alone all day with 3 kids including a very sick one. He seems to be coming good now, but he’s had a poor day unfortunately.
So we spent most of the day cuddled up together watching cartoons, not so bad really! He drifted off for a few sleeps so I used that time to get to some jobs I’ve been putting off for a while; working on a couple of broken parts in the car and playing in sketchup.
I hate working on cars, everything is designed to be put in and removed with special tools and in a special order. I don’t have the tools or know the order, so my hands always end up sliced, greased and red raw. I can’t believe I used to love doing this sort of stuff when I was younger. I used to rewire cars for fun!
A small plastic cog has broken inside one door lock, which means the entire car cannot be locked. Ugh. To fix it I had to remove the entire door trim, latch and take the lock mechanism apart. Not fun at all. Especially after I fixed it, put it all together and then heard it snap again straight away…great design, thanks Ford.
Later in the day though I got to spend a little time in sketchup. I’ve been mentally working on a design for a Coffee table for the #CTBO event that the Cronkwright Workshop is hosting through November and I wanted to see what it would look like visualised.
Here’s the first version of it, it’s pretty much what it was like in my head, though I still need to nail down the dimensions. What do you think? It will be made from pine and an as yet unknown hardwood, basically whatever board I can find that is long enough, cheap enough and pretty enough to use.
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Are you entering anything in the Coffee Table Build Off? I *think* there are prizes on offer, but I know there will be plenty of links to talented woodworkers who will be showing off their skills.
I’m happily just making up the numbers 🙂
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