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August 17th, 2007

Woodwork news

gluing wood

I have had cause to glue several pieces of wood together lately, so I thought I would keep you updated.

The budget dining room chair
This became broken because someone had been leaning back on it in the way that we were told not to do at school. I poured some wood glue into the holes and then put it back together. Unfortunately since my gluing the chair has one leg that is longer than the others so the chair wobbles when you sit on it or when a cat jumps on it. At the moment the short leg has a piece of folded-up newspaper underneath it which means that it is approximately level. As a longer term project I plan to cut a little bit off the other three legs (using my saw). This may need to be repeated so it is likely that the chair will become quite a bit lower than our other chairs. We will mainly use it for sitting at coffee tables or to take the humblest seat like it says in the Bible.

The budget two seater settee
This became broken during a particularly lively game of scrabble. One moment I was thinking of words using seven vowels, the next I was on the floor. I poured some wood glue into the holes and then put it back together. I plan to be a bit calmer when playing scrabble in the future.

The budget Argos lightbox
This became broken because it was not very well made in the first place. I use the lightbox to trace cartoons from one sheet of paper to another or to trace things I cannot draw, like horses. The lightbox had been broken for several months and broke into two pieces every time I picked it up to use it, which was a mild annoyance. I poured some wood glue into the holes and then put it back together. From now on I will be doing more cartoons about horses. Actually I do not think I have ever done a cartoon about horses.

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  1. Peter Kirk says:

    If you want tips on drawing horses, read My Name is Red. Don’t take the tip about sticking a needle in your eyes!

    August 18th, 2007 at 12:06 am
  2. Neil says:

    I have spent all week building Argos furniturem, each compnant is so flimsy, but when built is remarkable sturdy. How would we survive without Argos?

    August 18th, 2007 at 10:45 am
  3. chris clark says:

    I am disappointed that you used a lightbox. I had always imagined you used a magic latern or one of the new fangled slide projectors. Shining an image on wall means you can put a piece of paper on the wall and trace round it…I understand that gives the artist a better connection with the real horse..better still I suppose would be a camera obscura..

    Good luck with the gluing..I hope you don’t become stuck up :-)

    August 18th, 2007 at 11:30 am
  4. Dave says:

    Neil – my advice would be to buy some wood glue now. It will serve you well in the future.

    Chris, Where possible I find a horse, bring it to the ’studio’ and trace around it. Unfortunately thus far this has never been possible.

    August 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
  5. Bimble says:

    You need only trim one leg of the chair to make it stop wobbling. Or use three legged chairs from now on!!

    August 18th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
  6. Lois Keen says:

    Thank you for the very helpful drawing of gluing two pieces of wood together. I’m sure this will help with some of the odd pieces of wood lying about the place. Please, Dave, could you draw how to put the folded newspaper under the shorter leg? I’m having trouble visualizing this.
    (LMAO!!!!!!)
    Lois

    August 18th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
  7. Farli says:

    I look forward to cartoons about horses, perhaps what to do when a horse turns up at Church? This is something which has never previously troubled me, but I am now giving it some thought.

    Happy wood-glueing

    August 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm