Crikey Leigh ! That is rather close ! I wonder if your idiot and mine are related....
So....apart from my winging a rather irate letter to the National Trust this morning....cooking a large breakfast for the remaining members of the family from over the weekend Easter stay...then dropping SWMBO at work...then back to then take others to the Station...then into Home Base...managing to mess up fitting the coving in the en suite...apparently Persimmon make a point of never ever building 90 degree corners anywhere so wasted two hours cutting 16 inner and outer mitre joints only to find none of them fitted...and so it goes....
....and then 30 minutes to myself...so.....heated the bamboo and collected rather a lot of liquid....had to then clean the kitchen counter top......burnt hands on said heated bamboo.......found an old fitting from a broken glass rod.....and an old butt stop button....drilled an 18mm rebate in the end of one of the handles.....dry fit......tomorrow its two pack epoxy purchase time and track down some whipping thread......anyway.....I am still at this project......the cane is now a little darker which I rather like without being too over the top.......more to follow.....in between the saga of the en suite coving mitre cutting - dull - way to spend a Public Holiday Monday...........thank goodness for slow speed drills with sanding attachments...."nodes" quickly reduced and tapered....
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