Frank Pellow
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What is the simplest project that you ever undertaken and completed for pay?
Mine is the flagpole support that I built two weeks ago for my granddaughter's Sparks group. For those who do not know, Sparks comprise the youngest group within the Girl Guide organization. Sparks are aged 4 to 6.
The requirement I was given was a stand that could hold a small aluminium flag pole, that could easily be moved but could still support the pole, that was no larger than 50 cm cubed, and that looked rustic.
A couple of days after my daughter asked me to make this, I was chopping firewood and it occurred to me that my chopping block would do the job. So, I took a slice of the spruce log, sanded it top and bottom:
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Drilled a hole two thirds of the depth of the slice:
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Applied three coats of Spar Urethane top and bottom, and the job was done:
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There you have it a project that perfectly meets the requirements, costs almost nothing for material (the tree was free from my neighbours) and has no joinery.
My pay for this work was a dozen and a half ginger cookies baked my granddaughters Brooke (6) and Jamie (4).
Mine is the flagpole support that I built two weeks ago for my granddaughter's Sparks group. For those who do not know, Sparks comprise the youngest group within the Girl Guide organization. Sparks are aged 4 to 6.
The requirement I was given was a stand that could hold a small aluminium flag pole, that could easily be moved but could still support the pole, that was no larger than 50 cm cubed, and that looked rustic.
A couple of days after my daughter asked me to make this, I was chopping firewood and it occurred to me that my chopping block would do the job. So, I took a slice of the spruce log, sanded it top and bottom:
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Drilled a hole two thirds of the depth of the slice:
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Applied three coats of Spar Urethane top and bottom, and the job was done:
[attachimg=#1]
There you have it a project that perfectly meets the requirements, costs almost nothing for material (the tree was free from my neighbours) and has no joinery.
My pay for this work was a dozen and a half ginger cookies baked my granddaughters Brooke (6) and Jamie (4).
