On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:40:48 GMT, Mekon
wrote:

I have to now sand, fit, glue and screw the base then build the rocking
stand and final sand and wax.

The baby is due on the 27th of October (please don't be early little
fellow, please?)

Oh that reddish stain on the floor isn't my (or anyone else's) blood
despite all my best efforts, I haven't spilt that much in the workshop!


Mekon


Beautiful job - I look forward to seeing the whole thing finished.
Though I hope yours finds more use than mine.

I made a pendulum cradle 4 years ago - flat morticed mahogany(ish)
slats in an ash frame. I was as proud as punch - biggest project I'd
done for years and turned out better than I thought I was capable of.
Made to be knocked down as it had to travel a long way. I'm retired
and disabled and can only manage an hour or so a day in the workshop,
so it took me several weeks, followed by almost a week's bedrest. A
dour fellow-woodworker warned me that in his experience I'd spend
longer making it than the bairn would be in it - I should have
listened.

My brand-new grandson was in it less than 2 weeks before the in-laws
trumped it (deliberately) with a very expensive commercial effort -
preferred by my daughter-in-law because it was a 'proper' gift and not
a 'home-made' one. Mine was consigned to the loft.

Still glad I made it though - I've half a mind to ask for it back and
offer it free to the next new baby I see...

John