I Am Not Bored Of Boards

Separated Board Burr Set by Frans de Vreugt

Let me apologise to those misguided souls who visit my site every Sunday expected another new page of drivel! Unfortunately I had to work at the weekend and just didn't manage to have time to solve and write anything. Luckily today is a public holiday and I'm off and can quickly write something. Not that I'm going to show anything that I have solved - it's about something I will have a lot of fun with over the next few weeks.

Over the years I have managed to purchase a fabulous collection of burrs and along the way, various friends created burr sets to allow a huge assortment of purrs to be made. I cannot resist a burr set and this new one is the 7th in my collection:

Burr sets with closed boxes

Open Burr sets

Frans has carried out a fairly exhaustive analysis of the board burrs that began with the Zigzag, Torture and Extreme Torture and found a whole bunch more. He felt the misguided urge to create a burr set and prevailed on some friends to print the burr pieces and make a rather beautiful box from Alder. Of course, when he offered me the chance to have one, I had to say yes and it was brought back from the Netherlands by Ali after a visit to Wil. It is stunning!

My first ever board burr was the Gordian's Knot which was a renamed version of Frans' Extreme Torture so that will be one of the first that I make. I don't expect to be able to assemble many from scratch but half the fun for me is creating the Burrtools files.

Wish me luck!