This
week we continue the assembly of the stove kit, by the end of the
video we will have all the major assembly completed just leaving the
finishing and trimming for next week. If you haven't watched last week's video you can find it here.
You
get to see a bit of my fighting my battle with the tiny little knobs
on the video and at the end I do show you how to get them in place.
My first instinct with these little pieces is to pull out my trusty
tweezers and use those. That just seems like the logical way to do
this. But.....for me with these tiny pieces I usually end up using
the old spaghetti trick. I do show you that at the end of the video
so hopefully you won't stop and mess with the tweezers in a similar
situation. When we get to the larger piece (the damper handle on the
stove pipe, it is of tweezers/ fingertip size and way too big for the
spaghetti)
On
the subject of the tiny, tiny knobs, my biggest pet peeve about these
kits is the fact that there are very seldom extras of these tiny
pieces included. I did get one extra knob in the hutch kit which was
a good thing because I had to resort to using it on the stove. I
think these things probably jump away from most of us and would it
really be so hard to have planned on an extra one or two of them on
the mold when they were designing the kit?? I again spent several
minutes of my time on hands and knees under my work table looking for
wayward pieces.
By
the end of this week's video we are really getting what looks like a
cook stove. I remember when I was a little girl my grandparents still
had the old cook stove out in the barn and now that I think about I
think we had one out in one of the out buildings on the farm while I
was growing up too.
When
you are thinking about historic scenes by the way and what time frame
a cook stove would have been used do remember you need to figure out
where your dollhouse is supposed to be set. In the area where I live
for example I know that electricity didn't make it all the way out
the the farming areas until sometime around 1940 although they had
had it in town for a long time. That's why there were still some cook
stoves around the farms in my childhood a generation later. My mom
didn't have electricity growing up they got it when she was in high
school or had already graduated.
Be
sure to come back next week to see how I decide to finish the stove.
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