Wet Sand

I now have a fancy new semi-rigid cast on my writing hand: In between answering work emails and watching the local wildlife go past......

Adding insult to injury (literally), as I sat bandaged up on the sofa recovering from surgery, the cat got a fright from an imaginary threat...

Before going under the knife I made a small box for my lovely wife using some leftover Australian silky oak and New Zealand red beech. ...

The lack of posts this year has only been partly due to an old (1986) injury, which has progressively got more and more painful until I deci...

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

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

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...