A little bit of progress over the last couple of days. Here's the timber (thanks for the tips on it being Meranti) in it's primal state. Should be able to get 3-4 more bodies out of it!



And here it is stripped back and wiped with some turps:



There's a bit of light figuring from the curly grain. Will definitely have a red hot go at popping it.

But first, some shape! I've knocked up a model in Blender, and usually I'd send off the plans to the big blue shed for an A2 print but instead I'm doing it the old fashioned way. I've marked out a grid on the surface and I'm transferring the intersection points of the curves with a ruler and pencil:



Might be a bit hard to see the grid, but here's the end result:



The cutting itself is a work in progress. My little bandsaw is struggling with the thickness and density, and the grain likes to deflect the blade off in funny directions - so I'm taking it slow. It probably doesn't help that I cut a bunch of aluminium on it leaving the blade a bit blunted. Anyway, hoping to finish roughing it out tonight.

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