I've comforted myself in the professional doldrums of the recession with a couple of small building projects, in support of my historic re-enactment hobby. One is a chair, supposedly of 5thc Irish design, called a tuam, and the other is a tent called a geteld, based on drawings in 8th and 9thc manuscripts, of Anglo-Saxon encampments.
I hadn't done woodworking in a long while, and my enabler is usually a metalsmith, but we managed this little chair fairly well, and it was good to stretch those skills again.
Amazing what $15 can get you, with a bit of design. More about the chair here.
Ditto the modeling of the tent - I'm going to be sewing this myself, and the structure is simply a pair of 2x3 9' uprights with a 12' 2x4 ridge. Only 10' of the ridge actually spans; the rest supports a waterproofing detail; those little ears shelter the join of the triangular side "bells" to the basic A-frame wedge. Here's what it should look like when done:
(One has the choice of lifting an entire side on more poles, as shown here, or opening one bell end, as I did on the graph paper model.)
More pics of the tent model here, with information about its historic precedents.
I am encouraged by more jobs being posted, and I am certainly applying...my friends want me employed, as I'm making intimidating progress with my camp home!
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