As I’m getting into different types of woodwork, one of the projects I wanted to tick off my list was a simple router bowl. I’ve seen plenty of YouTube videos of people making them, and I always liked the results. There are two ways to do them. Well, there are lots of ways to do […]
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We’ve been needing a new coat rack near the front door which ironically, rarely has coats on it. We use it for keeping the dog leads and other random things on it. The old one only had four hooks and wasn’t the most useful. So I decided to look at what wood I had and
Sometimes you just need something quick, practical, and don’t care what it looks like. I recently got hold of a second CFS for my Creality K2 printer. The CFS is a multi material system so I can preload up to four filaments per CFS. A second one brings this up to 8 filaments which means
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Mostly thanks to the sales of Astropixels, we have decided it may be a good idea for We Make to become a limited company. So the trigger was finally pulled and as of 6th November 2025, we are now officially: We Make Things Limited Not something I was expecting to do any time soon, but
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Not all projects have to be massive. Sometimes you just have to do a quick and simple one to have some fun. We have some cheap plastic lids for tin cans as Elsa only has a half can of dog food for each meal, so we need a lid to reseal the can when we
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A few months back I was at my parents and my mother mentioned that the table she used in the garden for potting plants and such like was getting a bit rotten so I offered to make a replacement. I got some measurements of what they wanted and had a bunch of wood laying around
Carrying on from my last post, I didn’t want to lose momentum with the organisation. The last big cabinet of drawers made such a difference to the whole workshop that I wanted to do more! I’ve had a pile growing on one of my benches for a good while now and it needed sorting. Not
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So, there are two types of people in the world. Those for whom the shop is *for* their hobby, and those for whom the shop *is* the hobby. For the last six months at least I’ve definitely been in the latter group. However, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last
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So, around April in 2022 I offered the first set of R2D2 lights that became known as the Astropixels. I wrote about them briefly a few months later in this post. Well, it seems that they’ve been popular. I’ve managed to keep the price down, and even got it down to £70 at times. This
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We’ve had a CNC for a number of years now, but its has always been a bit on the rubbish side. It wasn’t very rigid to say the least, with wobble in the Z axis being very pronounced. So earlier this year I found a UK company (IT Tech) doing a whole machinery kit that
