Wet Sand

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

22 September 2020

Gather Round the Wireless

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  My brother-in-law gave us two mid-century radios from a house clearance a while back.  After evicting the borer from the cabinets, the inn...
27 August 2020

Offcuts and Offcut Offcuts

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  The plank used to make the lazy Susan was 40mm thick and was split in two to make the 20mm platter.  After resawing, jointing, thicknessin...
24 August 2020

Misty morning

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  View from bed.
20 August 2020

Around we go again

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  Lockdown Number 2.  Off to the wood stack to see what there is - some nice figured rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum).  Perfect for a lazy Susan...
12 August 2020

Pretty Weighty Jetty but not Muddy or Wet(ty)

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  A pond needs a jetty, but who wants to stand around in muddy water to build it?  So it was off to the workshop to frame it up undercover. ...
21 April 2020

What's in the scrap bin?

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Here are a couple of small projects for those lockdown Microsoft Teams meetings, Zoom sessions and FaceTime catchups. Both made from sc...
10 April 2020

Barstool Upgrade

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I bought a cheap second-hand barstool on TradeMe a few years ago for my standing desk.  Lately, it has migrated to the workshop to give a bi...
08 April 2020

Locked down but not out (of wood)

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A while ago the macrocarpa sawmill down the road was selling pallets of 'shorts' (less than 1m long) that were no good for regular s...
23 March 2020

The Workshop Has Re-Opened for Business (kind of)

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Mostly recovered from hip surgery, I've been back into various projects for the last month or so.  Unfortunately, work has been getting ...
04 January 2020

So bored...

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... that I've started drawing cartoons with really bad puns.
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