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Top Tips For Taking Care Of Garden Tools
When you’re working in your garden, there’s nothing more frustrating than having a tool that simply will not do its job. Very often the cause of this problem is poor maintenance and care. With time, wear and neglect both manual
Securing Your Shed
Workshopshed: It’s that time of year when the nights are closing in and thieves start to break into sheds. Bonfire night is popular as people are often away from their houses for a long period. Nick Arnold: When it comes
Traditional Woodworking Techniques and Why They Matter
Wood is a beautiful material. You’d be hard pressed to find a home in which wood does not feature somewhere. Wooden furniture and surfaces made with traditional methods really does set wood apart though, creating unique pieces that exemplify craftsmanship,
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Enhancing the lifespan of Power Tools
Workshopshed: A typically British summer this year, alternating between strong sun and damp weather. It’s not the best conditions for your equipment and tools so our latest guest author has provided some thoughts on keeping your power tools in tip
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Tags: maintenance, rust, Sponsored, Tools
Finishing Concrete – Top tips
I do like working with a wide range of materials but there’s a few that I don’t know that much about. One that I’d like to experiment with a bit more is concrete. Priority Plant a top tools manufacturer to
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Tags: concrete, Construction, Sponsored
Party Political Broadcast by the Metric UK Party
A slightly different guest post today but it’s a topic that’s close to my heart so thought it should have a forum to speak 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the UK’s promise to adopt the metric system, we believe
Building a workbench
I’d been discussing workbenches with my Dad who’s just setting up a new workshop after a house move so I asked Brandon from Solid Wood Designs in New Zealand what he thought the basic fundamentals were for creating a workbench.
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Tags: Bench, solidwooddesigns
Commercialising ideas and inventions
Following a chat on twitter, I asked Patrick Andrews if he could provide some insight into how inventions and ideas could be commercialised. Ok, the first thing is to try to stop using the word “commercialisation”, because that is a
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
