28 September 2021

White on White

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  Another couple of recent projects to pop out of the workshop made with offcuts and salvaged fittings, all finished with leftover white hou...
21 September 2021

Pentominoes

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  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...

Back to Work, Mate

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I inherited my Dad's old Black & Decker Workmate but the jaws had a significant bow in them, making clamping difficult. I still had ...
01 September 2021

Another Lockdown in Paradise

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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 ...
08 August 2021

The Cabinet of Doom

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  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...
25 May 2021

Vintage Tesla charging station spotted in Cardrona

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27 February 2021

Recent Projects

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  How quickly time flies, even in the midst of a never-ending pandemic.  The workshop has not been idle though.  A couple of herb boxes were...
09 November 2020

How do you like them Onions?

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  On the way back from a recent trip to Waitomo for some abseiling fun we stopped off at the Classic Museum in Hamilton.  On display were ex...
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...