This week at UCC I've been finishing off a couple of little jobs for Tracey Underhill Printmaker, Illustrator and Artist www.traceyunderhill.com
The worktop on the printing desk has been levelled and the height of the roller set just above the worktop to allow the perspex backboard to travel through the rollers without dragging on the worktop. Trace has already used it to print the first layers on two new large prints and it looks to be functioning well. I have also made some progress on the print drawers for Trace's main worktable, just waiting on some extra long drawer runners before I can assemble them. These drawers provide two 78cmx 118cm drawers for storing large paper sheets flat and safe. The final job was the temporary print drying rack.
The brief was to build something quickly and cheaply to hold 10 sheets of A1 paper whilst the ink dries. Most drying racks either use wire mesh/grids or have some form of wooden frames with cross stringers. A quick trip to the lockup provided several lengths of rough sized oak battens.
A quick play with my new planer and table saw revealed some lovely oak.
Since it is only a temporary solution the frame was screwed together rather than a more permanent joint. The shelves would be made of fishing wire, in order to help locate them, I drilled and dowelled each upright providing a peg to wrap the fishing wire around.
A bit of googling and some head-scratching and experimenting on how best to string up this weird new instrument left us with tieing nets.
A few hours later and we have a completed rack that is already in service and working well, not bad for £4 of fishing wire and a few odds and ends of oak.
In clearing the last of my tools out of Trace's way in her studio I emptied out this pine box which I got free with some tools I bought a couple of years ago.
So the question now is what do I do with it. I could paint it in some fancy off-white chalk paint and sell it to hipsters as upcycled shabby chic, but currently, I'm thinking of using it as the basis of some more useful storage like below (image stolen from google).
I've also had a few timber sales this week, a couple of slabs sold through eBay and a few enquiries via the website. Whilst the sun was shining on Wednesday I took the opportunity to wheel out the saw and planer and spent the day cleaning timber. There is something addictive about taking grubby rough sawn timber and revealing the inner beauty.
It also creates a lot of interesting sawdust.
That's all for another week. Next week hopefully I'll get a chance to crack with some more ukulele making and maybe a couple of the other back-burner projects.
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