BRINGING HOME THE BACON
They do seem rather apt at doing such a thing.
I`m using string this time.
A something out of one of my special oldest stash tins.
It sure brought memories flooding back into my brainbox of the days long past, when I was designing and making my own hot air balloons. Toy ones that is. One filled in its hanging down position an entire corner in the lounge for many years. Mrs B,always wanted one and in those days money being short,i made her one from scratch, for I have always been keen to find new delights.
She adored it,and so did many of our friends. I ended up making half a dozen of those colourful things with woven baskets a dangling with tiny figures that cheered everybody from upon high. Perhaps one day I might make another as our old dusty thing was replaced with a rather large oblong TV with iron brackets that fixes it to the wall. A splendid thing I do not watch that often. Time just spins away in my usual day.
EVER ONWARDS
BB`s Garden Fences for ______The Asterix Building Project.
I arranged three tiny jigs that were all quite a fidget to do, but such jigs save time in the end.
So are by best well worth the jiffling of one or several pieces together.
Plan A. I tried cocktail sticks!
Plan B,i used thin wire I normally use for homemade tree`s!
They just did not pass the quality control.
HOWEVER
On Plan C,i used my Ballon string already mentioned,
that had lain in the sealed up tight tin for over 19 years.
The design is a simple zigzag affair with an off side wall,and it being free standing,and not a falling over like the Friday night drunk, passed the quality control.
I overlaid my odd job jig with a plastic sheet,then pegged out every hole fit enough to receive the cut up skewers. These were pushed through the plastic sheet and deeply imbedded into the jig.
I want to be able to remove the entire little thing after it is solid hard.
Hard because fine shingle was added filling it up as is seen in the photograph. Then diluted PVA Glue was dribbled over the entire top dressing of stone. This will go hard by morning.
It being a Monday!
A top tip is one I have long used on my railway,a drop of washing up soap added to the diluted glue, will break the surface tension on those stones making sure it soaks right down into it coating every layer in its passing. With no soap added,it rolls off the top in failure.
Once dried hard,the entire piece will lift off, and those peg ends on the bottom will be snipped off,quick as a few snip snips take.
So the first little wall will stand upright, and true and several will serve as garden boundaries.
"BB`s always cooking something up."
I will be making several other walls using this method, and for wattle and daub type buildings .
So I will certainly show stages of that work. It will be far cheaper than expensive clay that is for sure.
I sincerely hope you pop in to see what`s going on.
In that way we can all learn together as I myself have never tried wattle and daub.
I will certainly need to do it on the Chiefs House,which is a third part stone,and a third rendured walls,then a wooden roof. I am sure It will be fun.