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I am making some boxes to sit in my overhead kitchen cupboards - one for flour, one for sugar, etc as the shelves of ingredients are a bit full and to find a particular flour or sugar, for example, I have to pull them all out - so I may as well sit a simple box on the shelf and lift it out when...

I am obviously being really dumb - which is often the case, which is why my normal mode of operation is to wait until I hit a challenge, then go away for 12 hours until a solution pops into my head, then continue. However, this time no obvious solution has popped into my head - so I need some...

Have just completed my kitchen using top end cabinets and doors from Magnet. I have a larder area which I need to build and have a series of cabinet door and drawer fronts from Magnet so that the completed project will match the kitchen. All of the Magnet cabinets are 18mm and white, with...

I am making some photo stands for my camera club and they need to fold up and fit in the back of a car. They have one set which I am copying - it consists of a hinged A frame at each end, 3 horizontal rails with attachments to lock onto the A frames and then some strings to stop the A frames...

I have a 1930's gentlemans wardrobe. I bought it because it was cheap and the internal storage was of the highest quality - pull out shelves, beautifully fitting drawers and a large clothes hanging space, all veneered in what I think is maple but I lack expertise to be certain. The outside is a...

I want to knock up 4 plywood boxes to hold the grandkids Christmas presents - logic being that they will be a bit different from all the rest wrapped in paper and they will have a small storage box each after the event to keep. For the presents I have, the boxes are going to be 18"x10"x8" (LWD)...

I need to knock up a couple of sleds - one crosscut and one mitre for my old Axminster table saw. There are lots of examples around but they all seem to fit around and in front of the blade, (so the slot for the blade runs from 'near back to front edge') which means the riving knife and guard...

I picked up a corded Sthil circular saw on eBay - don't think they make them anymore, but it was cheap (£25 I think) and I love it. Compared to that Black & Decker circular saw drill attachment that I grew up with this cuts through stuff with no effort at all (including my saw horses on my 1st...

Am planning to build a bed for my grandson, had something like this in mind: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/8 ... L1500_.jpg Would appreciate some thoughts: - I could build the ends and back from sheet or I could use M&T posts and rails. My fear is that it will be a lot more...

My dad (a plumber by trade - old school, he thought copper was for wimps) used to tell me that carpenters only used saws and hammers and made joists and rafters and the like, joiners were more skilled and had more tools and could make doors and things and cabinet makers were the really skilled...