Category: Woodworking

  • Conflicting interests

    Last week and this week saw me do two different things which reflect the two parts of my interests, my computer geek side and my woodworking side. 

  • That’s exactly what I intended to do….honest.

    The more I turn, the more I notice I have two modes of operation for producing items. The first mode is the considered approach I know I should take. I sketch some designs in my makers notebook, think about my plan, consider the order to do things in. Then I go to the garage and…

  • Wooden door latch

    A little while ago I was browsing the web, and I found an interesting site, that contained a number of wood working projects. 

  • Closing the door on a long standing todo.

    Some time ago I started a project…, OK quite a long time ago…, alright – I’m slightly embarrassed to admit it was over 2 years ago. My bedroom is pretty big so I decided it could stand to lose a couple of feet to have a decent size built-in wardrobe.

  • Candle snuffer, take 2

    For this month’s HWA meeting my challenge had been set as a candle snuffer. I had already made one, exactly as it had been shown in the instructions I was given. But the second candle snuffer I made, I decide to make articulated.

  • Scene 2 take 15…CLAP

    When I first came up with the idea of a clapper board, I figured I already have some hard board, and other bits of wood, plus some blackboard paint. I figured I just needed to nip to my nearest B&Q and grab a hinge.

  • Tidying up my workspace

    Having spent some time in someone else’s workshop I picked up some things about their setup which I liked, and decided to invest some time in making some improvements in my workshop.

  • My kind of holiday

    Last week Kat and I went on holiday to visit her father’s house in France. I took with me some tools and overalls so that I could spend some time whilst there doing some wood turning.

  • Hampshire woodturners – September

    This month’s wood turning group was a pretty good one, both for the demo and for my ‘haul’. 

  • This is ‘turning’ into a bad habit

    Recently my resolve to save money and be good has somewhat fallen apart. I’ve been blowing payrise money on new tools, and generally talking myself into things that I should probably not be spending money on.