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We had some slow time in the workshop, some off-cuts, random tins of old paint and a desperate need for more storage space.

112 drawers in total.

Except for labour, zero costs.

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It has been a long time since I did some real woodwork.

I recently completed this table from the book Queen Anne Furniture by Norman Vandal

It has an oak top, and painted pine base. I just did...

Maybe this will help.

I used to throw things around and curse. It was not nice.

At the beginning of last year I did a Whole30 challenge, eating clean and healthy for 30 days, and I continued...

After may years of "repairing" stuff the first thing I check these days is if the electricity is on. And then I check the plug and only after that will I start checking switches.

We bend 303 stainless like that in the workshop with a pneumatic bender. Doing it by hand is almost impossible. Straightening mistakes and re-bending are almost guaranteed to break.

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In our little workshop in South Africa we have 15 people.

I asked around and we have 8 different mother tongues, and speak 22 different languages.

Even had one incident where a guy got his...

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I have been working towards that last year, but wasn't very strict.

Since the beginning of January I have been following a Whole30 diet, extremely strict, no grains, legumes, sugar, dairy. This is...

The right tool for the job.

I've done woodturning on a metal lathe out of need.

I am now using a milling machine to bore holes in wood.

It works. But not really very well.

For a start,...

Very cool. We have that exact same book in the house when I was a kid and I made most of the patterns in the book.

I just didn't have such an awesome set.

Don't buy it.

We have got a big press at work, and I tried a few times to put plywood in there to flatten it, and it has never worked. Not even 3mm, not even for 3 weeks.

Thanks for all the replies, it helped a lot

I've had a good look at it again, and I think making and inserting some brass pins will be the easiest. It doesn't have to support too much stress, and...

I've buying cheap secondhand tools as I saw them for the past 20 years, and never really used any of them.

But I've been reading recently about hand tools and thought I would like to learn a...

I've lost 44 pounds last year, so hopefully that will continue.

But for a woodworking project this year, teaching me some new skills, I plan on building a roll-top desk.

We also use a variation of the plate glass idea, we have a hole tapped into the outfeed table, and a board that is bolted down. There is a little reference mark on the side of the board, the cutter...

I've got a similar machine. It stated the capacity is 1 mm steel, but that is a bit optimistic. Depending on what you want to do with it, it works fine with 0.5 mm galvanized sheet, and I made some...

I sometimes use Draftsight.

Useful for reading all sorts of legacy .dxf and .dwg drawings.

I have to come and feed the workshop cats on Christmas Day, so I am probably going to stay a few hours.

Been caught again.

A friend asked me to make a cheap washbasin stand for them, a small little job, not much time involved.

I didn't mind, and said yes, as long as she buy the material and come...

If I measure anything I have to write it down. I can measure something, turn around and have absolutely no idea what the number is. The workshop is littered with little pieces of paper. And I spend...

I am in the process of losing weight at present. Since March I have lost 40 pounds., and have another 50 to go.

The problem with the internet is that there is too much advice, and all of it worked...

My day job is woodworking, or rather managing a woodworking shop, and my present hobby is blacksmithing / knifemaking.

Some time in the far of future I have this dream of making a reproduction...

The food industry has kevlar net gloves that prevents cutting yourself.

Don't worry about old people. I've decided my 72 year old father can climb ladders if he wants to even with his replaced...

The only time I had to reduce a big block of zinc into smaller pieces I used my woodworking bandsaw, and you are right, it wasn't a good idea.

Is it possible to smelt the entire ingot and recast...