Who’s been a busy boy then?
Over the past few months, many of you have enquired about how much progress I’ve made with the Small Smoother kit. I must be honest that the progress has been quite slow, due to a few other projects that I’ve been working on.
I’m coming to the end of an Oak sideboard build that I’m making as a wedding gift for my mate and his wife. I was one of the best men at his wedding a year last june. Hey, better late than never. 
The sideboard was built entirely using the Festool Domino, and it’s just Brilliant!! Due to my limited shop time, this project has taken me a couple of months, but I reckon that if I had worked solidly on it, it would have only taken me about two and a half days to get it to this point, including pre-finishing all the sub assemblies before the final glue up. Cutting all the joints literally took no more than a couple of hours tops.
I’ve also made a couple of small ceremonial chairs for Eisteddfodau. For those of you that arne’t aware of Eisteddfodau, they are a tradition that go back many centuries here in Wales. Eisteddfodau consist of singing, reciting, and literature competitions (mostly in the welsh language), and children from the age of around 3 to 103 compete in their chosen categories. The winner of the main literature competition traditionally wins a chair. I was asked recently to make 2 small chairs for local Eisteddfodau, and here’s what I came up with.
The chair is about 9″ high, but although it’s very small, it took a good few hours to make, there’s not a straight line on the whole chair. The wood is Beech, finished with Osmo Polyx oil, this oil is rapidly becoming my finish of choice, it looks good, is durable, and is easy to apply, what more can you ask of a finish? I’d love to make a full size version of this chair one day, not quite sure how I’d go about it though.
Having got these jobs out of the way, I can now concentrate on getting the Small Smoother kit back on the road.
Cheers
Aled
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