30 July 2009

A Little Reconstruction, Part Dos

I cleaned up the dried glue around the pegs and dry-fitted some of the pieces together. While I had some pieces clamped I was working by the compost bin on the other side of the garage and heard something happening high over my head. A dead branch broke off (probably a fat squirrel) and fell right where I had been standing a few minutes before. I rushed over to see if my chair was ok and had it cleaned up before I thought to take a picture.


Here is the tree. I put everything away because storm clouds were rolling in.






And here are the pieces of the limb.



Scary how you can get hurt just standing under a tree with no wind blowing. Anyway . . .

I went back outside after I was certain it was not going to rain after all and I got the chair glued together and clamped.





Tomorrow I will clean up the stain some more and put some poly on it if I have some. I have to fabricate a small screwing block for the seat, too. It's amazing the trust we put in a few little pegs and some glue that's all that's between our butts and the floor.

2 comments:

Christopher Busta-Peck said...

I am so totally in envy of your garage doors. Most of the original doors of this vintage seem to be of the hinged type. I'd love to see a few photos of how they sit on the track, somtime, if you might.

Marilyn said...

Christopher:
Put "garage" in the search box and you can see more post with pictures of the doors. Basically they are attached like inside pocket doors--two metal tracks with a pulley-like hanger with half a bracket hanging from it. The other half of the bracket goes on the other side of the door and two bolts go through it. I need to get out there and put some more grease in those tracks before winter.