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You’re probably right Phil Im going slow taking my time and learning as i go.. fortunately I have a next door neighbour that has a lot of experience in wood working to help when I need help..He gave me a scrap piece of the same wood species as the chest to use for the scarfs ,its not a perfect...

Gunna be sore in the morning .....

Taking my time Dave slow and steady and trying to not stuff it up

I bought 2 tokens that gives you 50 clay targets Murrey in the office said you’ll need 3 boxes of ammo 😲and hands those to me points me up the path and says go up there to Rick an ask him to show you what you need to do , 5 minites later Im standing abreast of 5 other shooters waiting my turn to...

Scarfed in both of the hinge resets this morning. Small insert Larger repair is looking ok still a little bit of work to do before its finished , glue needs to cure before shaping .. While the glue sets i spent the afternoon at the clay target shooting range trying to hit the clay pidgins

I was able to chisel out the damaged wood on the rear of the chest to the right shape and size to alliw me to glue in the new piece of wood but unfortunately i also found that the wood had been repaired in the past . while i was trying to be careful i still managed to dislodged some of the...

Started the drive home early Sunday morning and thought it best if we broke the drive into 2 stages to save mom from sitting the car for 12+ hours First stage Mildura to Wagga was 552 kms took us just on 6.5 hours with a couple of stops along the way. Crossing the bridge from Mildura to Gol...

She enjoyed Mildura spending time with the Brother in-law watching the swimming and Cricket. And we did manage to get her out Christmas shopping , the hard part was getting her to spend any money as she reckoned everything was over priced ..Bought my son a jar of Plumb jam for $6.50 at the...

If I recall I drove her crazy asking Why

We had wet weather from Footscray to somewhere around Castlemaine then it started to ckear up We had a drive around Bridge water on Lodden and spend half an hour looking around Wedderburn before stopping for lunch and fuel in Wycheproof Which acording to the women at the gas station translats...

Saturday Melbourne turned on a bautiful day for our first afternoon at the son new place. Sunday we drove to Brighton and had fish n Chips at the baths Philippe bay winds almost blew us away so we stopped off at Melbourne markets on the way back and experienced the madness of finding a disabled...

Well its almost the end of our 10 day trip to Melbourne and Mildura. Its been quite the adventure too we left lake Mac mid morning on a friday to drive down to Albury were we had a 2 bed apartment booked , a 7 hour drive with my 90 year old mom constantly asking are we there yet and were are...

I really understand where you are coming from Dignit Believe me, its only a nice place to visit because its where my son is living at the moment. This close to the Golden Triangle , I would much rather be out bush swinging the detector or panning a creek..

We are visiting my son in Melbourne for a few days…nice view from his apartment

Sand surfer are you putting solar on your house or a caravan ?

Thanks Phil I am inclined to avoid applying a commercial wood stain and your suggestion gives me another option to enhance the color instead of covering it with something out of a tin

Yeah i never thought to use beeswax Might be just the thing cheers Mackka 👍🏾

Not sure what species it is Manpa, it has a slight redish tinge to it I wouldn’t have imagined that under all that paint and stain was such a pretty looking timber,, Now I’m perplexed on how i can treat the timber to accentuate its natural beauty 🤔

Outside is coming along nicely , tomorrow I’ll start stripping back the inside of the f the chest to get it back to the natural wood, after that l need to prepare some wood putty to fill in all the gauges and other imperfections.. really need to address the area where the wood has deteriorated...

Lid striped down and sanded back Rear side of the chest paint removed and sanded. 3 sides to go