Good evening all!
Prepare yourselves for that one of my dreaded WIP/woodcrime threads.....
Members of the old Woodhaven will remember (with varying degrees of horror and dismay) the Great Pirate Chest of Many Lids That Didn't Fit thread from Xmas 2011:
The need arose for a bit more storage space, so a couple of drawers underneath seemed like the best way to go. A simple softwood carcass would only take an afternoon to whack together using odd bits from the woodpile...except that all I could scrape together was a mongrel assortment of varying lengths, widths and thicknesses, ranging from this delightful pair of bed rails with a few *minor* defects:
To these "immaculate" pieces of PSE which appear to have been planed up using a housebrick:
A scattering of equally unsavoury smaller odds 'n' ends completes the inventory and I realise from checking against my hastily-scribbled sketch that I can't afford much in the way of wastage/cock-ups.