Here’s the first project from carpentry training, or at least the first one fit to show on the blog. It took several hours of cutting, planing, filing and sanding to get this together.
In our corner of Germany this is called a ‘Vesperbrett’, ‘Vesper’ being a mid-morning break where people usually eat a sandwich, traditionally using wooden plates like this one. In the UK I expect we’d call this a cheese board.
In a few months we’ll be making things far more complex than this and I’ll probably look back and wonder what all the fuss was about, but for now I’m feeling pretty satisfied just to have made something that looks vaguely like it should, and hasn’t fallen to bits within 24 hours.
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November 18, 2012 at 1:54 pm
teigl
It looks great – well done Andy!
November 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Graham Evans
Looks familiar. I wonder how much it would cost to varnish???
Mathematical advisor.
November 20, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Andy in Germany
Iain: Thanks. The current project went a bit awry (put my chisel clean through the wood) so it may be a while before I post anything like this again.
Dad: Hehe. We just smeared it with Olive oil: the persom before me left so much residue on the cloth I didn’t need to use the bottle: all that calculation and I ended up doing it for free…