Winter may not have arrived yet technically, but you wouldn’t know that from the chill greeting me in the mornings these days. I think I’ll be investing in a small heater for the workshop soon, it will just be too cold to enjoy being out… Read More »It’s programming time – Fit It – Mach II
I’m currently on annual leave, it’s been a year since I’ve had some time off so I thought I’d take it while the kids were home from school. The problem is that I always end up regretting that I haven’t done enough, so I try… Read More »Out with the carpet, in with the floor boards!
I’ve had requests for a shop tour for a while now, but always thought it would be bit boring to sit through. But recently I had a mate come around who isn’t all that into woodworking; but who still seemed fascinated by all the stuff… Read More »Shop Tour – 2017
Flattening the slab top with a router, gluing up the frame, and hiding all of my mistakes! All this and more in Part Two of building my workbench! Why wait? Click play! Once again, I’ll add more detail about each step in a weeks time.… Read More »Building a solid and cheap Workbench – Video Part Two
Good things come to those who wait right? I guess that this workbench is a good thing, cos it certainly took a lot of waiting before it came! This bench is something like 4 years in the waiting, and my god, had I known how… Read More »Building a solid and cheap Workbench – Video Part One
I’ll be posting a longer update about it tomorrow, but I’m just a little bit excited that I’ve managed to implement Grain direction into my panel layout program Fit It! Woop woop! I’ve put over 20hrs into it the past 3 days, everything is… Read More »Grain Direction
Ok, put your hand up if you use your table saw as a workbench. Hmm, how about put your hand up if you use your table saw as a glue up bench. Alrighty last one, hands up if you use your table saw as a… Read More »Polishing up the Table Saw
Now that I have the Table Saw powered up and I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks, I thought I’d post a review on it to help anybody else who is trying to find more information on them. I’ve also got a general… Read More »SB12 Table Saw Review
The past couple of months, I’ve had to make a few trips to A&R Secondhand Dealers, a second hand building supply store that is near me. I’ve picked up some cheap timber, a window frame and the sheet metal for my garage from there. Each… Read More »Let there be light
My sparky came around last week to run the wiring for the garage. It was only after he ran all the cords that we stepped back and realised what I’d asked him to do – install 19 power points in my garage! The whole garage… Read More »How many is too many?
Here’s some more progress on the garage conversion project. I spent the majority of the past couple of weeks labouring for my builder brother in law during the day, so I was pretty much spent when I made it home each night. Nonetheless, I managed… Read More »Garage to Workshop Build – part 2
Some garage stats for you. Currently: Entirely my domain, wife has no desire to use it at all. Roughly 9.3m x 3.3m (or even more roughly 30ft x 11ft). Has plenty of power, rated to around 40amp, but only 3 outlets and 2 working lights.… Read More »Garage to Workshop Build – part 1