Wet Sand

My good friend Rob was keen to build a couple of deck chairs, so we have spent a very enjoyable half dozen weekday evenings building another...

Some leftover short offcuts of 190x45 American oak from the wood trim on the house (window sills) presented another good opportunity for max...

Cutting the hole for the sink in our new laminated macrocarpa bench top resulted in a nice piece of wood, surplus to requirements.  What bet...

Recently, a good friend of mine had a tree fall over at the top of his property.  It was not a big tree, but it had some relatively straight...

This project has been on the back burner (so to speak) for the last few years. After drawing up the layout and elevations, it was back to ...

New Year's resolution No. 4 was to build two Adirondack chairs (often called, incorrectly, Cape Cod chairs in NZ).  These chairs have be...

Who could turn down a free boat?  And since we built a dam and created a small pond about a year ago we now have the perfect place to launch...

I'm not sure where the last three months went but Happy New Year! Resolutions for 2015: Write more blog posts. Finish the Entertain...