Wet Sand

  A footstool for a friend's mother.  Oak, stained, and two coats of Osmo. Two pot plant stands for my lovely wife.   Oak again, with Da...

  My lovely wife picked up two 1960's chairs for $20 in need of a rescue. After some frame repairs and woodwork re-finishing they were r...

  I have been meaning to record something for a while - about a year as it turns out - so a quick summary of the year's projects: A floo...

  A good friend of mine mentioned that he was interested in getting a chessboard.  A few years ago we cut up an old celery pine at his prope...

  With lockdown still on and the timber pile shrinking I have been moving on to some smaller projects.  I was given a two foot long wharf be...

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

  A small project with some 3mm MDF offcuts and a bit of leftover spray paint.  Pentominoes are one of the polyominoes, popular as puzzles a...

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

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 ...

  I bought a partly wrecked oak china cabinet off TradeMe for $40 nearly a year ago.  Various previous repairs had only partly succeded in k...