Staying at home, and didn’t want to go out to the cold shed to make something. So, I thought if desktop woodwork. Used the washing machine when glueing.
Making a succulent wheelbarrow, using ice cream sticks.
Have - Echeveria elegans
Echeveria prolifica
ruby necklace
string of pearls
string of watermelon
The use of tooth pics serving as pins, is a method used for building radio controlled aircraft. In the picture just above, it’s important to think one step ahead. To have the wheel true, need to make sure the axial is square. Drilling the holes fit the axial after glueing is harder. When making the sides, don’t want two left hand sides nor two left hand sides. Like with radio control planes, don’t want two wings for the same side.
For the wheel, a Bunnings hole saw. Could have used tooth pics to form spokes, but wanted something for a post today. The centre of the hole saw is wider than a tooth pic, so several were used to build up the hole around a central tooth pic. When glueing, be sure not to glue the central tooth pic in place. Otherwise, two things, can’t mount the wheel in the model, nor will the wheel spin.
at Bunnings they sell Echeveria elegans. Here I cut off the little ones sprouting out around the bottom.
Will need ice cream sticks, tooth picks, Bunnings superglue, some secateurs, some foam to put tooth pics in to hold the sides, when applying glue .
