{"id":867,"date":"2018-11-22T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2018-11-25T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T08:20:49","slug":"home-workshop-spice-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Home\/Workshop: Spice Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finished and in situ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has turned out to be ‘one day project #2’; my first was my saw-rack. Now I’ve made this spice rack. They have a few features in common: both use dado recesses to join the members, and both use horizontal dowels to hold stuff in place.<\/p>\n

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Glue up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I screwed up when drilling holes for the dowels, meaning I ended up with some extra holes to plug. But as mistakes and corrections go, this was a less onerous one.<\/p>\n

\"Spice
Oops, more holes than intended.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Partly inspired by pure lack of fundage, and partly by guys like Neil Pask, with his Scrapwood Challenge series on YouTube, I try to just use stuff I have on hand.<\/p>\n

But it seems nine times out of ten I find I’m lacking something essential. So I have to pop out and buy it. Today it was a suitable diameter dowel. I wound up getting some in 9mm, from West End DIY, for the exorbitant\/niggardly sum of \u00a31.75!<\/p>\n

\"Spice
Plugged and sanded flush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m just waiting for the glue to set up, or go off, or whatever it does, so I can trim the protruding ends of the dowels flush. Then I can give it a lick of paint. Lark Song will be the colour, as with the med-cab.<\/p>\n

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\"Spice
Glued over night, ‘n’ screwed this morn’, 2nd coat of Lark Song.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whilst painting the first coat, the top and bottom fell off. Looks like I didn’t leave the glue for long enough! I finished the base coat, re-glued, and have left it overnight. So hopefully it’s more solid now?<\/p>\n

I think, to be on the safe side, I’d better add something – screws or dowels – to strengthen these particular joints. And I suppose all this means this is now no longer, strictly speaking, a one-day project.<\/p>\n

\"Spice
Finished, but not yet mounted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And finally, in a minor follow up to my ‘I hate TV adverts’ post, a little something on that theme. Here we have, rather like the pics on the restaurant menu in Brazil<\/i>, and the coloured dollops of crud that are actually served up, a nice little juxtaposition of the box art depiction of Weetabix Crispy Minis<\/i> and the reality:<\/p>\n

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Cf. box art to reality…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Allegedly they’re ‘crammed’ with chocolate chips. Rubbish! I can neither see nor taste the supposed chocolate content.\u00a0Ok, so this isn’t quite on the level of the stupid mind-manipulation of most of the ads I was on about in my previous post. But it’s just as cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has turned out to be ‘one day project #2’; my first was my saw-rack. Now I’ve made this spice rack. They have a few features in common: both use dado recesses to join the members, and both use horizontal dowels to hold stuff in place. I screwed up when drilling holes for the dowels, … <\/p>\n

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