Reclaimed hammer
I’ve recently been given a rusty and heavy old toolbox full of bits. So in return I offered to fix up and restore the tools I thought would be useful for the origional owner and put them in a much
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Tags: Tools
Potting Bench – Part 3
The next part of the bench to build was the top. The back of the top was made from a scaffold plank, the ends were going rotten but I managed to cut a nice section from the middle 1m long.
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Tags: Garden Furniture, upcycle
Potting Bench – Part 2
Making the second pair of legs was fairly uneventful, a couple of knots meant that one piece of scrap just refused to separate itself regardless of how much I attacked it with chisels and saws. One tip I can give
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Tags: Garden Furniture, upcycle
Chinese New Year 2013 – Year of the Water Snake
I’d like to wish you all a Happy Chinese New Year and may your year of the water snake be a prosperous and plentiful one. Here’s some robot water snakes for your edutainment. The observant of you might have spotted
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Tags: chinese new year, robot, water snake
Potting bench – Part 1
When the builders finished our extention they left me some timber, mostly 2x4s. I also had some scaff planks that I interited with the house. At the beginning of this year, I decided that the big pile of wood was
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Tags: Garden Furniture, upcycle, woodworking
Fire Safety
As I work in a wooden workshop fire safety is particularly important to me. Last time I completed any formal training was at Dowty in the 1990s and I mostly remember the demonstration of the effectiveness of halon extinguishers vs
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Tags: E-Learning, Fire Safety, Sponsored
James Watt’s biography by Andrew Carnegie
I received a Kindle for Christmas and one of the first things I did was to look for free books to read. I managed to find a few and the first was James Watt’s biography by Andrew Carnegie. James Watt’s
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Tags: Inventing, old books, Steam Engine
Mounting a vice
Back at the end of 2010 I bought a new 100mm jaw mechanics vice from Axminster as an upgrade to the existing draper one I’ve been using. The existing vice is quite small and there is an issue with the
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
