White on White

 Another couple of recent projects to pop out of the workshop made with offcuts and salvaged fittings, all finished with leftover white house paint.

An electric vehicle charger holder for my lovely wife's new Nissan Leaf (new to her anyway):

Balancing out all of that good karma, a mobile fuel cart for the chainsaw and mower fuels, oils etc:

Pentominoes

 A small project with some 3mm MDF offcuts and a bit of leftover spray paint.  Pentominoes are one of the polyominoes, popular as puzzles and for recreational maths.  Because there are 12 different shapes of 5 squares each they can fit in a 6x10 rectangle (or a 5x12 or a 4x15).  According to Wikipedia there are 2339 solutions to the 6x10 puzzle.

Back to Work, Mate

I inherited my Dad's old Black & Decker Workmate but the jaws had a significant bow in them, making clamping difficult.

I still had some leftover birch plywood from the previous projects so I laminated two pieces together for each jaw, making a nice solid improvement on the original.

Back together again and complete with dog holes and grooves it should be good for another forty years.

Another Lockdown in Paradise

Off to the workshop to see what we have: 

Two sheets of birch plywood

An old (very solid) chipboard fire door recovered from a friend's office alterations 

Some leftover decking

My Dad's old vice

How about a mobile sanding and sharpening bench with the vice attached:

Still some leftover plywood, so how about some mobile wood storage:

Now, what else do we have to make with...