Recent content by Tip Top

Here's my 8x12 foot shed. It's served me well over the years.

I'm about to start building a garden pergola that has a footprint of around 5m x 3m (as per the sketchup image). Most of the roof is from 8"x2" and 6"x2" planks so it's fairly substantial, hence the whole thing is being supported on four 6"x6" posts. The issue is that these posts have been sat...

I've just bought a Bosch cordless City Mower. Cost £250 including 4ah battery and charger. My lawn is about 40 square meters and it cuts the lot in about 5 minutes with plenty of juice left in the battery. It's my first cordless mower and it's made things much quicker and easier. I love it.

The other option is to make your top without the parf guide system. Check out the YouTube channel of Rag 'n' bone Brown for his "Making an MFT top - No CNC, no jigs"

I just bought a custom sized mft top on ebay. Nicely made in18mm Ply. 1250 mm x 600mm. Cost £70 including delivery. I thought about doing my own with the parf system, but decided on getting one made up instead. Saved a lot of messing around.

This is a question about hand tools for metal bending. My first job back in 1980 was as a bench engineer and involved a lot of basic metal work. We had a simple system for bending flat bar and rod that used two simple tools that worked together. First part was a Wrench Block that was...

I bought this exact thing two weeks ago. They turned out to be a bit flimsier than I was expecting but I've used them a lot recently and they haven't let me down and so have earned my respect. Can't go wrong for a tenner.