Paul was there for the duration, in fact his arrival heralded the beginning of work for the day. This was sometime between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. I’d spent the morning running errands but always had plenty of interest in going to work on the floor.
Paul asked me if I used Excel to do a task with the wood. There was no using Excel for that task. It needed a hammer or a saw or something. But such had been my expression of love for Excel.
What are moths doing? You don’t see them during the day then they fly towards the lights at night. Do they spend the day flying towards the sun? What really is their game? What are they hoping to achieve by flapping around a light?
We fell into a nice rhythm of grooming a piece of rimu with the planer, chiselling out one end, drilling, and nailing down. Most of the chiselling lacked quality. I’m not apologising for that though, none of it is visible and it is completely functional.
I stated that I was prepared to accept gaps between the timbers of about 3mm. For those of you who have difficulty with mm, that is 0.3 cm. For the most part we pulled that off. The gaps actually look pretty cool, but not looking down to silver foil. I’ll need to get some black in there.
We got maybe 5 large timbers and 2 small ones down. There was discussion about spending the night out there tonight, but there isn’t quite enough floor space to hold a mattress yet. Maybe tomorrow.
It was so fun planing the timbers down. We would try and guess whether the board would come out looking amazing or not so. Some of the ugliest ones came out amazing, on one, the deeper I planed the more red and beautiful the wood got. 2 of them were a much lighter yellow/brown colour, with no suggestion of the lovely sought orange/red. The floor looks so great though, we were both really really pleased with it. I’m really not looking forward to having to put that pine down.
Before and after
We finished up for the day about 8.30.
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