Another power day of work.
First, lots of Christmas Tails admin, contacting the artists and managing the first sales. The album is available to buy now, for those who certainly want a copy of this musical exclusive. 6 sales so far, with something around £40 raised for the RSPCA.
Then my first Christmas present duties of the year. This always takes lots of time.
Then lots of preparation for the album cover creation day on Wednesday. Packing everything, preparing promotional slips (with a link to the album), permission slips, and printing the risk assessment. Finding a card backing board for the whole thing, cutting 50 tree and sycamore leaf shapes. These will be coloured in. The general design (in my head) is a forest, with animals and the artists hiding here and there. Then printing the artist images.
John Lindley wins the coolest photo award.
I managed a little work on Deb's shelves. I shaved off 2mm from each edge, actually using a jigsaw, the tool I command best. 2mm is the width of the blade, but it managed to cut amazingly accurately. I also did a test regarding the reattachment of hinges. The ultimate reason the hinges were misplaced was that the right side was not fixed firmly enough to the top. Some hot-melt glue bled from the dowel hole and glued the top. This glue sticks well but only a tiny amount of glue was present, and it's very viscosity stops it sinking into the wood. Glue must really penetrate the wood to stick well. It was glued firmly enough so that the side didn't pull out when tugged, but not so well that it didn't wobble; a worst of all worlds to some extent. I'll have to pull it apart and glue that joint correctly as a first step.
Then it's a complex process to fit the doors perfectly. First, the doors need to be held firmly but temporarily in the exact place. The hinges are then glued in their exact place with superglue, then the wood drilled through the hinge hole. If this partly impinges on another hole then drilling can be tricky, but the firmly glued hinges should stop the drill from slipping sideways. If the hinge hole is shared with another (old and inaccurate) hole (which I expect) then, a tiny amount of the holt-melt glue (acting here as a filler) can be squeezed into the hole, then screws attached while it's soft. I tested this today and it seemed to work. If the hole is all-new in virgin wood then I don't need that glue. The glue is there to stop the screw slipping into the old hole. The hinges should then, in theory, be firmly fixed where they lie.
Before Wednesday I really need to finish my Christmas song, and compose one for Fall in Green. Less urgently, I need to cut the supports for my other shelves, paint them and fit them to the wall to get that job out of the way.
