Shopping success!

After a lot of phone calls to hardware shops around Canberra, many of which were closed for the holidays, I finally found a business that would sell me some untreated structural pine: Home Timber and Hardware on Yass Rd in Queanbeyan. They had two sizes that I could use in MGP10, 45×70 and 45×140. I worked out that the 140 size would work for my leg frame rails, and could also make up the aprons if I laminate two boards together edge-on.

The young chap who served me at Home Timber was friendly, efficient and helpful. Five stars.

I also some fasteners I needed, picked up an offcut of decking hardwood that would serve for my vice jaw liners, and stopped by Spotlight afterwards to pick up some leather pieces to finish the liners.

All round, a completely successful afternoon of shopping – finally I had all the materials I needed to get started on the project.

loot! — My acquisitions, packed into the car

Lessons learned

Bunnings isn’t the only game in town.