Ned had found some thick window panes down in the wood workshop.
Ned is scrubbing the glass panes free from dirt.We made some cyanotypes in the sun with the glass panes. Here is one of Joanna’s trash braids, with trash collected from the steep hill-climb. First the watercolour papers are covered in light-sensitive emulsion, then the papers are put outside with things on them, after which the emulsion starts to change in the sunlight.We then waited for 6 minutes…… et voilà, the patterns emerges with blue background as you rinse the papers in water to stop the transformation on it.Here is one of Ned’s fern cyanotype – and one of the local spiders kept watch and made sure the paper was fully submerged.Another of the Spacehouse inhabitants took post on one of Tony’s G-clamps to assist in the glue-up of the two seat pieces.Yeah, still some ridges to take care of to get a nice glue joint.Planing the face of the second seat piece. The curved iron converts the no.4 smother to a scrub plane and takes care of 90% of the material to be removed in just minutes. The three available G-clamps can be quite versatile.The plan is to use two of the G-clamps to glue the two seat pieces. There is a 0,1 mm gap in the middle of the glue line, so the theory is that one clamp on each side in the middle should do it. We shall see tomorrow…To be on the safer side and since the local white glue is untested, two floating tenons will be incorporated. Plan A was routing (to the right, fail), plan B chiseling the mortise, both 6 and 12mm on the test piece. 6mm it is!
There was an excellent sunset as we were having cocktails on the veranda. The sun became a lively bright orange dot against the grey cloud.
