We set about demolishing the palettes, but because it was mostly low quality wood we had to deconstruct it carefully in fear of the wood splitting.
This was nearly impossible and was the most time consuming part of our experimentation. They were held together with either staples or nails that had been turned back in on themselves, making it very hard to get the lengths of woods off the palettes.
In some instances the wood was damp because it had been found outside. We contemplated the idea of buying new wood, but were scared that we would end up making rubbish out of something beautiful!
This made our expermentations with our jointing techniques very time consuming as we still had to make a lap joint to join the square together. We then used short lengths of dowell hammered through the joints to connect them and hold them in place.
