Wet Sand

A blog about everything that interests me. Woodworking, Engineering, Travel, Society, Architecture, Nature, Design and more.

18 November 2015

A thin veneer of success

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Another Trade Me purchase a while ago was a small (600mm diameter) side table, advertised as 'solid mahogany', but with a damaged l...
10 November 2015

Bargain Wardrobe

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As mentioned previously here , another oak wardrobe was purchased off Trade Me for $29 back in mid 2014. It was a bargain, but not ...
23 October 2015

More Adirondacs

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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...

More Offcuts

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Some leftover short offcuts of 190x45 American oak from the wood trim on the house (window sills) presented another good opportunity for max...
12 August 2015

Off-cuts

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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...
04 April 2015

Celery Pine

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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...
11 March 2015

The Kitchen Build

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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 ...
17 February 2015

Adirondack Chairs - tick

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New Year's resolution No. 4 was to build two Adirondack chairs (often called, incorrectly, Cape Cod chairs in NZ).  These chairs have be...
19 January 2015

The Free Boat

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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...
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