Repairs

This posed something of a problem: what do you do when a pinned tenon breaks? The joint was too broken just to glue, neither surface was flat, and the dowels were in the way. In the end I decided to dowel it with three dowls, to leave as much of the broken tenon intact as possible. Dowled joints are easy on flat, square workpeices. On jagged tapering workpeices, now… With a quarter-inch chisel I cut flats to mark on and marked the three holes on both mortice and tenon. [Read More]

There is a nasty thing out there called ‘built in obsolescence’, which is supposed to cure the fact that most things are actually made quite well and would last a long time if left to themselves. Here is a microwave: Well at any rate, there’s most of a microwave. The ‘cancel’ button was no longer working. What makes me think the entire microwave is being held hostage by a £0.03 switch? [Read More]