This piece of train track has been in our family workshops for generations, it is a poor man's anvil. I keep threatening to grind the horn smooth, but haven't gotten around to it. I could have used other types of clamps to hold this together but gravity was quickest and easiest. To attache these handles to the door I attached the handle to a plate and the plate to the door rather that driving long screws through the door into the handle. Since modern glues are so good I decided first to glue the two pieces together. Once the glue set I turned the unit over and drove a long screw into the handle through the plate. With the glue set nothing wiggled while drilling and and screwing.
Here is a progress photo of the funny little man.
This little man is going to Sweden for my youngest grand daughter. He is sort of a viking, but she is too small to have a toy with horns on its helmet. The big ears and nose stick out enough.
Over a year ago I was at a yard sale hosted by our church and six of these panels were for sale. At the end of the day the panels hadn't sold and the owner shrugged their shoulders and supposed they would burn the panels in their fire place come winter. I voiced my opinion that that was a real shame, as a wood worker I hated to seen decent wood burned for lack of imagination. My point was taken and I got all the panels for a very good price, on the understanding that they didn't end up in my fire place. I have been thinking about the panels for a while and recently found a project that will feature four of them.
Stay tuned.
cheers, ianw
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