Project of the day week month
A few months ago, we bought a little wooden lawnmower toy for the bears, so they could have something to help mow our lawn with. Since it was a lawnmower, it got left outside a lot in the damp (and often raining) Oregon winter. About four weeks after we got the mower, we discovererd that it wasn't actually all wood, but was instead medium density fiberboard with wooden wheels and handle. We discovered this in the traditional way you discover that something small is made from MDF; one day the lawnmower just fell apart.
Well, the store we'd bought it from had gone out of business, so we couldn't return it. And after spending $10 on the first lawnmower, I didn't really want to spend money to buy another one.
So I made one
This lawnmower is made from the wheels, spinner, and handle from the original lawnmower, a pictureframe from SCRAP, a couple of pieces of oak from The Joinery, and pine planks from a pallet I scavenged from work. It's was a simple (if time-consuming) job of just cutting wood to size, gluing it together, sanding the bejesus out of it, then putting on three coats of fire-engine red paint. If it wasn't for pesky things like needing to wait for paint and glue to dry, and needing to do the work in teeny installments to avoid tiny baby self-detonation, it would have taken me about a day to finish it, but in the reality-based world, it took a bit over a month.
A satisfied customer.