Recent content by ossyhugh

If your sketch is accurate, i'd be much more worried at the apparemt lack of diagonal bracing? The roof needs to be stiffened up?

Try an issue of Quercus - reading it is an absorbing experience like woodworking itself. No advertisements to distract you. It really is unlike any woodworking mag I've read before.

Try Quercus; recently started by Nick Gibbs editor of British Woodworking. Good length articles, interesting and a bit querky, designed to be rolled up ion your back pocket. No advertisments!!!! Some top notch contributors [Richard Arnold eg]. Available on line as hard copy or electronic...

what a cruel little book, even though i suppoose its tongue in cheek; and a cruel little article written by - i guess - a cruel little man. knowing simon reasonably well and counting him as a friend i can vouch that he is far from dull*; he's excellent company, and his collection is of course...

andy, finally got round [planning daughter's wedding, don't sak.....] to looking at the finished job on this site- excellent. having had privelage of seeing it first hand i can apprciate the achievement that this represents. well done, and for remembering to take photos as you go. but it...

ukworkshop browsing is made even better by listening to youtube, where there is the most amazing music; but you knew that anyway. the great thing about YouTube is the finding of bands you've never hear of, or forgotten. eg Tedeschi Trucks band, Cowboy Junkies, Blackie andthe Rhodeo Kings, Dr...

i was with Andy when he saw it and didn't buy it; then the sly old fox went back later...... Now i see the photos and explanation, i ask myself "why didn't i buy this really cool item". Lesson; just because someone else thinks something isn't worth buying, does not mean you have to agree wiyth...

thanks - great news. hugh