Fixing a moose

Another Monday, another woodwork class. This time I took in a sad moose whose neck had snapped, and glued the broken piece back on. I'm not convinced the fix will hold for long; it looks like a lot of stress gets transmitted through the small piece of wood at the back of the neck when, for example, a toddler thumps the moose's chin off the floor. Whether this is the case for real mooses is an exercise for the reader.

Also in shot are a blocky elephant and a rather whizzy box of dowel pins with mitred edges and a good heft to it. I suspect that "dowel pin" is a Scottish term for the metal pieces that allow you to centre dowels when reinforcing a butt joint. A quick internet search turns up this page which calls them dowel centers, blind hole spotters or dimplers and dowel pins seem to refer to the wee pieces of dowel that end up in the joint.

Then started next project: a business card box. That's what needs the dowel pins, but it'll have to wait until the next class on 24 October.