Frank Pellow
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Our daughter Kathleen and family are soon going to get a pet rabbit and my granddaughter Isla has asked me to make a cage for the bunny. She drafted a plan and mailed it to me about two weeks ago:
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One evening, I built this prototype:
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Last weekend, Kathleen and Jonathan went to Boston and the children stayed with us. We worked together late Saturday and all day Sunday on the really rabbit cage. Almost all the material used in the cage was recycled. Here is at photo taken yesterday morning of the two children hard at work:
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Ethan is releasing a vice while in the process of sanding a reclaimed cedar board and Isla is screwing part of the the frame together using a “real” screwdriver (Robertson of course –this time green).
Both children are now experienced woodworkers and they are a real help in the shop. They have good ideas and I consult with them often. For example the children came up to the solution to the problem we faced with the fact that the hutch will, at times, reside at the edge of their living room where they have good cherry furniture and we want it to be an eyesore. After stapling the wire to the outside of the frame, the hutch did not look like a piece of furniture. Ethan suggested that we screw some trim onto the hutch in order to make things neater then he search through the scarp bin to find something. He found quite a few very narrow (about 3 millimetre thick) stained pine strips that I had trimmed off some wood donated by a neighbour a few years ago. When I observed that the screws might go right through the wood, Isla suggested that we could stop this by placing washers on the wood. Then, the three of us decided that the use of finishing washers would actually match the effect on some of their furniture. We had enough of these in stock to do the front of the hutch. The other three sides will be done next week. The result of our labours appears to the below:
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As well as hand tools, one or both of the children made use of the following tools on this project:
-Festool Rotex 150 sander
-Festool Duplex linear sander
-Festool PS2 jigsaw
-Festool BPS 12 drill
-Delta 15 inch planer
-General 650 table saw
As you may gather, I am very proud of them. [thumbs up]
[attachimg=#1]
One evening, I built this prototype:
[attachimg=#2]
Last weekend, Kathleen and Jonathan went to Boston and the children stayed with us. We worked together late Saturday and all day Sunday on the really rabbit cage. Almost all the material used in the cage was recycled. Here is at photo taken yesterday morning of the two children hard at work:
[attachimg=#3]
Ethan is releasing a vice while in the process of sanding a reclaimed cedar board and Isla is screwing part of the the frame together using a “real” screwdriver (Robertson of course –this time green).
Both children are now experienced woodworkers and they are a real help in the shop. They have good ideas and I consult with them often. For example the children came up to the solution to the problem we faced with the fact that the hutch will, at times, reside at the edge of their living room where they have good cherry furniture and we want it to be an eyesore. After stapling the wire to the outside of the frame, the hutch did not look like a piece of furniture. Ethan suggested that we screw some trim onto the hutch in order to make things neater then he search through the scarp bin to find something. He found quite a few very narrow (about 3 millimetre thick) stained pine strips that I had trimmed off some wood donated by a neighbour a few years ago. When I observed that the screws might go right through the wood, Isla suggested that we could stop this by placing washers on the wood. Then, the three of us decided that the use of finishing washers would actually match the effect on some of their furniture. We had enough of these in stock to do the front of the hutch. The other three sides will be done next week. The result of our labours appears to the below:
[attachimg=#4] [attachimg=#5]
As well as hand tools, one or both of the children made use of the following tools on this project:
-Festool Rotex 150 sander
-Festool Duplex linear sander
-Festool PS2 jigsaw
-Festool BPS 12 drill
-Delta 15 inch planer
-General 650 table saw
As you may gather, I am very proud of them. [thumbs up]
