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Last Job of the Decade

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Last Job of the Decade

Postby Woodbloke » 28 Dec 2019, 17:00

Having got fed up with my usual container for BP pills...

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...I decided to make myself something more 'up market'. This is a little box made from an oddment of Brown Oak...

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...with a sliding lid concocted from another oddment of Burr Elm. Some inserts included on the mitres for strength; finished with sanding sealer and a decent slathering of Alfie Shine. I rounded over all the edges 'cos just as I was finishing it I dropped the lid on a mitred corner and bent it :( so rather than stuff the whole thing through the bandsaw, which is my usual practice, I just took a block plane to the edges and corners - Rob
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby RogerS » 28 Dec 2019, 18:34

Woodbloke wrote:.... I just took a block plane to the edges and corners - Rob


Now THAT'S what I call a bodge :lol: :lol:
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Mike G » 28 Dec 2019, 18:53

Erm.......sorry to be pedantic, but the decade ends in just over a years time. I trust you're going to do some woodwork between now and then!
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby MY63 » 28 Dec 2019, 19:05

I am sorry to say I would need a bigger box but that is great box.
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Rod » 28 Dec 2019, 19:09

Nice box but I too would need a much bigger one:

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Holds a weeks supply.

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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Malc2098 » 28 Dec 2019, 21:31

Nice box, and Mission Control insists the decade ends next year! :D
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Woodbloke » 28 Dec 2019, 23:00

RogerS wrote:
Woodbloke wrote:.... I just took a block plane to the edges and corners - Rob


Now THAT'S what I call a bodge :lol: :lol:

Better than stuffing through the bandsaw :lol:

Malc2098 wrote:Nice box, and Mission Control insists the decade ends next year! :D


You see Malc (and Mike), that depends on who you believe....

"A YouGov poll was conducted on December 2, 2019, asking 13,582 Americans whether the following decade would begin on New Years Day 2020 or New Years Day 2021. Results show that 64% of Americans answered the next decade will begin on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. 19% of the Americans surveyed replied they are unsure, while 17% answered the next decade will begin on January 1, 2021, and will end on December 31, 2030.[3]"

From Wiki...but then again they are 'murricans :lol: You could be siding with the minority.... - Rob
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby RogerS » 28 Dec 2019, 23:04

Woodbloke wrote:
RogerS wrote:
Woodbloke wrote:.... I just took a block plane to the edges and corners - Rob


Now THAT'S what I call a bodge :lol: :lol:

Better than stuffing through the bandsaw :lol:

Malc2098 wrote:Nice box, and Mission Control insists the decade ends next year! :D


You see Malc (and Mike), that depends on who you believe....

"A YouGov poll was conducted on December 2, 2019, asking 13,582 Americans whether the following decade would begin on New Years Day 2020 or New Years Day 2021. Results show that 64% of Americans answered the next decade will begin on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. 19% of the Americans surveyed replied they are unsure, while 17% answered the next decade will begin on January 1, 2021, and will end on December 31, 2030.[3]"

From Wiki...but then again they are 'murricans :lol: You could be siding with the minority.... - Rob

Welll...they did vote for Trump as a President so they must know what they are doing :eusa-whistle:
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby RogerS » 28 Dec 2019, 23:08

Just a thought.....perhaps we should ditch the CGS system of measurement and instead use the much more practical Pole-Grain-Fortnight system of measurements ? Much more sensible. :lol:
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby TrimTheKing » 29 Dec 2019, 00:39

Mike G wrote:Erm.......sorry to be pedantic, but the decade ends in just over a years time. I trust you're going to do some woodwork between now and then!


Hmmmm, if you start time at year zero then the end of the first decade (completion of ten full years) is December 31st year 9 so surely that means that the end of 2019 is the end of that decade?

Happy to be educated otherwise...
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby RogerS » 29 Dec 2019, 07:32

TrimTheKing wrote:
Mike G wrote:Erm.......sorry to be pedantic, but the decade ends in just over a years time. I trust you're going to do some woodwork between now and then!


Hmmmm, if you start time at year zero then the end of the first decade (completion of ten full years) is December 31st year 9 so surely that means that the end of 2019 is the end of that decade?

Happy to be educated otherwise...


But there never was a Year Zero. We went from 1 BC to 1AD. Having said that, consensus seems to suggest that either are correct

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/decade.html
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby marineboy » 29 Dec 2019, 09:01

Getting back to the box...that’s a great piece of work. Re the lid, does it slide right out or have you put a stop on the underside?
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Woodbloke » 29 Dec 2019, 12:54

marineboy wrote:Getting back to the box...that’s a great piece of work. Re the lid, does it slide right out or have you put a stop on the underside?

Thanks; yep the lid slides right out. As I mentioned, I was fed up with having nowhere to put my blood pressure meds so I thought I do myself a little box, all made from oddments loafing around the 'shop. The Alfie Shine comes highly recommended btw - Rob
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Mike G » 29 Dec 2019, 13:20

Woodbloke wrote:..........You see Malc (and Mike), that depends on who you believe....

"A YouGov poll was conducted on December 2, 2019, asking 13,582 Americans.......


Six percent of Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens. Forty percent believe the world is less than 10,000 years old. I reckon we should leave this sort of stuff to the experts, the people who determine the calendar and such, don't you?
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby RogerS » 29 Dec 2019, 13:50

Mike G wrote:
Woodbloke wrote:..........You see Malc (and Mike), that depends on who you believe....

"A YouGov poll was conducted on December 2, 2019, asking 13,582 Americans.......


Six percent of Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens. Forty percent believe the world is less than 10,000 years old. I reckon we should leave this sort of stuff to the experts, the people who determine the calendar and such, don't you?


But that's just it, Mike. Many haven't given an opinion. For example, National Institute of Standards and Technology USA. It depends if you're a Team Zero or a Team 1 kind of guy.

At least we can agree that printing a diary with the May Bank Holiday as the 4th May was a bit precipitate seeing as how they've changed the one in 2020 to be Friday 8th !
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Re: Last Job of the Decade

Postby Woodbloke » 29 Dec 2019, 13:51

Mike G wrote:
Woodbloke wrote:..........You see Malc (and Mike), that depends on who you believe....

"A YouGov poll was conducted on December 2, 2019, asking 13,582 Americans.......


Six percent of Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens. Forty percent believe the world is less than 10,000 years old. I reckon we should leave this sort of stuff to the experts, the people who determine the calendar and such, don't you?

Indeed Mike...my comment was posted very much in jest! :D - Rob
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