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StevieB wrote:......Like the letter box - is this a traditional design or one of your own? Not sure I have seen one like that before?
Jimmy Mack wrote:I like it. The kerning Mr G! - eek! You did fess up tho
I'm not too keen on the door, I know some have mentioned movement. For me it's also the proportions, the panels are visually a little large for my eye, just a personal thing... tho perhaps a period style?....
Mike G wrote:Jimmy Mack wrote:I like it. The kerning Mr G! - eek! You did fess up tho
Thanks Jim. Had to duckduckgo "kerning".....and yes, it's exactly the right word. At the moment it reads "MA....IL". I'll fix it. My wife said I should have carved "Letters" instead, without realising that carving is time consuming, and that I don't have any carving chisels, so curved letters are a bit of a pain.I'm not too keen on the door, I know some have mentioned movement. For me it's also the proportions, the panels are visually a little large for my eye, just a personal thing... tho perhaps a period style?....
The door will look a lot better when it has a knob (ring, actually, I think), and a knocker. Plus a load more nails, but I am waiting to see what I have left after doing the inner door before putting them in. It is a very traditional mediaeval design, but, like them, it needs embellishing.
Mike G wrote:9fingers wrote:Are you going to have something like a sash weight to keep the letter box closed off or just relying on Postie doing the decent thing?
Bob
Terry is terribly well trained. He says it is the best letterbox on his round. Anything is a bonus after 4 years without a letterbox, such that he had to hand the mail to me personally every day, or hang on to it until the following day. He'll keep it closed.
Rod wrote:It looks like a nice height. I’ve delivered a few village newsletters and the ones on the floor are real back killers and the ones that try to take your fingers off should have a postie health warning.
Rod
Andyp wrote:......I like that a lot but what happens when Terry is on holiday?
RogerS wrote:Did you try routing all 3" in one go, Mike? If so, I'd have gone for several smaller cuts TBH.
Re the letterbox...love the idea and see your point re the kerning. But to my eyes that I looks like a bastardised T with those oversized serifs.
Rod wrote:Strange the use of green oak.......
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