There's this bit in Twin Peaks where Cooper and Trueman are sat in a police car and have the following exchange:-
Cooper: Wanna know why I'm whittling?
Truman: OK, I'll bite. Why are you whittling?
Cooper: Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not speed up.
I quite fancy whittling, I fancy carving something, making some thing out of wood just using like a knife and my own cunning.
I have an apple tree, its bound to produce dozens of apples, I could make my own cider, if only I had a cider press.
I'm not sure quite how cider presses usually work, but I drew a wee sketch of how I would make one:-
Great isn't it? Some huge lump of wood with a screwthread carved round it, sitting in the middle of a frame.
It took me ages to find the huge lump of wood, B&Q and Homebase had nothing even close to the size I wanted, then I remembered, I work at a depot where they regularly cut down trees. So, I got me a log.
Now I've got me some whittling to do.
I started off last week just using a stanley knife and a steel rule to get the right spacing and the initial cuts. But now I'm going at it like hammer and tongs chiselling out the screw thread.
Sure its a little wonky, but hey, its my first attempt at this sort of thing and it looks just like how its supposed to according to my plan.
Yeah, so like the pitch is 4cm and because I have two starts the lead is 8cm. I'm aiming to get the thread depth to be around 30%, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that with just a knife and chisels, so at some point I'm going to have to acquire a nice file, but that'll be in a few weeks.
