I never actually said what my secret project was!
We have our front door which is timber, and then an inner door which is glazed with lots of smaller glass panels, and two of them were broken and for the past year had been protected with cardboard.
This time last year (about the 10th I think) I started to remove the glass, and gashed my left hand open in the process but then it got left for many months longer.
So I finished getting the glass out (with correct hand and eyewear!) but then found I couldn’t remove the old putty. I tried chiseling it out, then I googled and found that the heat gun would soften it (duh!) which made it soo much easier.
All done now, even though the glass pattern could not be matched as they don’t make that pattern any more (at least at the glass factory I went to) it looks much nicer :)
I’m not completely certain what the new project is, but I’ll keep it updated here without giving it away of course!