The lovely SWMBO did need a stand for her hair dryer she is using in the sauna bathroom.

This gave me an opportunity to learn some "features" in working with soft wood - that is to make my mistakes. I have been using the hollow chisel mortiser in past for hard woods getting quite nice and smooth gluing surfaces. This is not the case with pine, the surfaces are terrible. In this case the leg joints were on the edges of the plates. That allowed me to restrict the hollow chisel punches to the back line and to do the side lines with bandsaw.

I was concerned how to get parallel lines with bandsaw to an irregular object. Perhaps I was lucky, because I just used draw the lines and by freehand followed the lines and the end results were as good as those I made to the straight edges with normal miter support.

The lessons from this exercise
- check at least twice when setting the shaper for glue joint
- the butt joint in the legs is not very strong
- pine is too soft for hollow chisel mortiser
- the mathematics still works to setup the string for drawing an ellipse

Cheers, Ollie