DIY boot jack from salvaged red oak
I've been quite unwell this last week with a virus that I picked up while on a work trip and I still haven't shaken it. As a result I've spent almost no time in the workshop, just half an hour here and there during the week in the periods when I wasn't working or lying on the couch feeling sorry for myself! ..still, there was time enough to get a little project done and a useful one at that. Our boot jack recently got broken by a relative rushing to get their muddy outdoor boots off quickly quickly enough to reach the Room of Requirement in time. They made it to the room but the boot jack didn't - it was sheared in two, straight across the middle. I decided to make a new one myself using some of the red oak I managed to salvage from the kitchen that was originally in place when we moved into our house. I regret that I didn't salvage more of it due to my own ignorance when we took apart the old kitchen. I didn't know enough to realise that -- though fi...
