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Since the shop is JAMMED because of the plywood and maple delivery that I got last week, I needed to clear out space. This is a little open-backed hut that I made to hold two trash cans. It turned out better than I expected .It’s made from old Sun Microsystems pallets, cedar fencing, and 2 hinge sets. Not bad! I need to add a little vanity board on the bottom, ’cause you can see the shims I used to level it. I built the entire thing in the shop (2 days!) and then kinda walked it up the driveway, and voila! When it weathers in, it should match the shingled house nicely.

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They’re finally done. It’s been ages since I fooled with autocad, but it turned out fine. These are the base images that I started with - they always require a little fiddling.

The PDFs for window1, window2 and the gate.. The gate is cedar, frame and panel construction. Obviously, you’d flip ‘em around so there would be two. The stained glass pattern (there are two in the PDF; cut one up for the glass, leave the other as a base to build on) is sized to fit in the gate, with 1/4″ molding. I’ll use brads, and they will have to be brass, or else they will stain. Ceder does awful things when it comes in contact with iron - big black streakies.

Forgive the crappy formatting.

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Here’s half of the gate. That’s stained glass and cedar fenceboards framed in by 4×4 posts. It’ll be frame and panel construction. Now I need to figure out how much this thing will weigh. My astute neighbor pointed out that cedar loves to suck up water. So, while it’s nice and dry, it’ll weigh between 150 and 250 lbs, but when wet, it might double that. I’ll publish the pattern as a proper stained glass pattern once it has been adapted. It’s shamelessly ripped off from a reconstruction of “Miss Cranston’s Ingram Street Tearooms”, as cited in “Art Nouveau, 1890-1014″ by Paul Greenhalgh.

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I’ve been wanting to challenge someone, anyone, to a fencing match. I think I’d win… here’s what two weekends hath wrought.. I got a decent deal at Freidman’s, the local non-home-depot. I’m so tired that the muscles in the palms of my hands are sore….

I’m thinking of inlaying the house number in stained glass. That way, it’ll get lit from behind in the afternoon sun. Useless for night-time, of course, so I’ll just have to make something else for that. Oh, darn.

I’ll use a jigsaw to even up the top, and then I’ll add some very cool post caps. Eventually.

What have I learned? Um… nail guns are cool. Really cool.

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