I had a dabble in the workshop

Excellent work as always! Not sure it’s to my taste but your workmanship shines through.

Tim

Thanks.

I don't expect it will be to everyone's taste - and I am somewhat surprised that son opted for a walnut style finish on his desk and other furniture - I was half expecting him to go for something with a painted finish initially.

So since he had started that theme, it seemed sensible to continue, and I figured I could probably do that and then some! :-)

I'm not getting the Rock'n'Roll connection, unless he's expected to smash it up?

What do you use to make sure the angled piece into the roof is accurate?

All in the second para under the section "The doors" :

"How it came to be in my position in the first place is perhaps more interesting. My Nan’s friend Eileen, had at some point given her this wardrobe – ostensibly to furnish the guest room. Originally it had been in the bedroom of her elder son Anthony, but he had moved out some years back, and it was then surplus to requirements. Anthony (actually his middle name) was far better known by his stage name Vivian Stanshall, renowned “Ginger Geezer” and lead singer in the “Bonzo dog doo-dah band”. The erstwhile owner of the donor wardrobe thus adding the required provenance to justify the “Rock’n’Roll” in the title! "

The first approximation was using something like:

I erred on the slightly too shallow side of the angle. Cut the first side and then offered it up into position to see how close it was. The wall side was spot on as you would expect since that was easy to measure, the point was about 10mm too tall however.

So scribed a line from the sloped ceiling onto the side. I then re-cut a straight line approximation of that scribed line, and used that side as a template for the cut on the second.

Just as well I did it in that order since later I discovered that the house was actually slightly crooked - the ceiling is about 15mm higher at the right hand side! However since the "short" side is against the end wall where you can't see it, it does not really show.

I got a four-sided bevel type thing recently from Lidl - helped a great deal, but I still made a bit of a hash of the job, as per :-)

Phew. Pre-bevel, I'd generally mucked about with cardboard templates and the like, dealing with the curse of older buildings. The bevel should help - and thanks for the pointers.

Good grief - one of my top characters! Still play Cornology compilation from time to time.

Yup, much respect to CAD (Cardboard Aided Design!)

A nice job John. How pleasing to reuse old panels. TW

Yup, they scrubbed up quite nice. Now I need to think of a project to re-use the original doors which are quite a bit more ornate.

I have a few old doors and panels in the back of the shed waiting for a project.

TW