Recent content by mbedford

During one of my rainy day sessions surfing the web I saw a wonderful design for a knock down childrens garden playhouse. It was a fairly typical "Swizter" challe affair, but was built as a number of bolt together panels. Nothing to difficult to design myself but as with any project someone...

Andy These machines are beasts, and unless you are going to use them a lot I would stear well clear, I get one of our local tree fellers who has a wood miser to come and see us every now and then, much safer and not too expensive, you can nornally barter his time for some excess timber that he...

Ages ago I saw a design fro a set of sprung loaded brass rods that were pushed down by the lid on a box and pushed though the carcass of a box to lock a draw, great idea one lock on the lid controls the whole thing. I am no metal worker but I could probably mess something together to do this...

Roger Just saw you post, it may be a bit over the top for your project but here are details for "the" book on green oak framing. "Timber frame construction - All about Post and Beam Building" by Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder" ISBN 0-88266-365-8. Much quoted, less often acknowledged, it is...