DIY time again

Moved to do a bit of DIY the other day, the first time for a while, and the first time for a long time that the chisel rack (to the right in the illustration left) had been used, a handy adjunct to the long serving, if unusual, work bench - mostly made, as it happens, from timber left over from the construction of the Croydon Art College before last. See reference 1.

The task in hand being slotting a piece of oak into a shake in a mahogany board (ex Hook Road), which will hopefully stop the shake spreading, with the necessary slot being just about visible in the top edge of the board. Or will it be rather a reminder about of the proverb about not mending old cloth with new? See Matthew 9:16,17, Mark 2:21,22 or Luke 5:36-39. The St. Luke version being, for example: 'no man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old'. Italics in the original.

And while I was on shakes, I did similar service to our bread board, beech this time and possibly also from Hook Road, although the bread knife that comes with it dates from the early seventies. As the bread board was a good deal thinner than the mahogany board, I simply cut the slip (left over from the aforementioned piece of oak) into the back of the board. Glue from Wickes. Maybe it will hold the thing together for a few more years.

Reference 1: http://www.croydon.ac.uk/en/art/. No trace of the building I remember, either here or one streetview. Maybe I shall take a walk around the area.