From pew to pigeon holes

Our local church asked if I could use a redundant iroko pew to make a set of pigeon holes for internal mail. This is the result. A picture of the pews is in my album.

There was far more work than is apparent because the pew was made from 20mm and 32mm boards. The thicker boards were jointed to 280mm and 360mm wide. There was a lot of re-sawing, planing and re-jointing to get the 9.5mm and 16mm thick and 230mm wide boards that I wanted. I can only re-saw and plane boards up to 200mm wide so it was all sawn, thicknessed and edge jointed before I could cut anything to size. A lot of sawdust and shavings I can tell you!

Overall size is 1080mm high x 1020mm wide x 230mm deep. Stained brown mahogany and finished with Patina.

Richard

Edited By Oddjob on 29/07/2012 19:43:31

Very nice Richard well worth all the hard work,

On to the next,

Regards,

Ivor.

Cracking job there Richard. It's a real labour of love when you have to make all those joints, but well worth it.

Simon

richard excellent job well done

I love to see things being recycled

dave

Hi Richard -- All been said, a fantastic job well done.

Great work Richard, how long did you spend resharpening your tools?

Ron

hi richard a lovely job

its a great feeling when something you have achieved is appreciated well done

Thanks Gents - your appreciation is appreciated.

Ron - not much sharpening at all. Nearly all of the work was done with bandsaw, planer/thicknesser, router, and tablesaw.

Richard

Lovely work - as always Richard!!

Steve

Lovely job Richard, it's always good to see good wood being reused to make something else. It must have been a lot of work. Very well done.

cheers. Ian

Great job Richard. Did they like it

I think so Derek - they've asked me if I have enough wood left from the pew to do another "little job." I guess the rate of pay will be the same so I suppose I'll do it!

Richard