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 […]
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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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
The recycling boxes always looked untidy just lined up next to the stairs to my garage, so I decided to do something about it. I’ve previously made some planters for Joy to use in the garden, so I figured I’d progress to something a little bigger and made a bench that could be used for
As mentioned in the last post, I like to play with the big power tools. I’m currently learning and experimenting with a large CNC router that I finally finished. A CNC router is controlled by a computer to finely move a spindle to cut away wood. It works on a similar principle to 3d printers,
I guess its about time I wrote a post! Whilst Joy tends to be the more artistic of us and uses her hands, I tend towards the more industrial side of things and use all the power tools. This week I had a go at making some resin river coasters. River tables are very popular
