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A desk for my 7 year old daughter. I reused a chest of drawers I made a few years ago, and made the desktop and other leg out of oak. Finished with Osmo polyx raw. First time using plugs to fill a few voids and threaded inserts to attach the top to the leg and drawers. She now has a nicer desk...

6 months later they are finally on the wall! I went with a combination of scholar's suggestion for a batten at the bottom, and some brass brackets at the top. I used 4mm dominoes in the batten to locate and hold the box. I decided not to use brass screws in the wall, as I couldn't face...

Thanks Max Power, I'm pleased to say she was. It was quite fiddly to spray, and I said to my wife I'm never spraying anything like that again. My other daughter has now asked for one too, although she asked if it can be big enough for her to get in :ROFLMAO:

For her birthday, my daughter wanted a bunk bed for her dolls. Loathed to buy more plastic, I succeeded in getting the commission to make one. Pine and MDF, spray painted.

They look different to the 204308 that I use in my CTL midi:

From back in June; made 5 of these bee hotels as gifts.

Two live edge elm shelves, with oak and elm brackets. The shelves are heavy so fingers crossed the brackets do their job and it all stays up!

I've had good results spraying Cuprinol garden shades with a Fuji mini mite 4 and a 1.8mm tip, didn't need thinning at all. Not sure about constant water contact but then I would think a planter has some kind of lining anyway.

Thanks TomGW. Do you mean to drill a small (the oak is 9mm thick) hole in the back of the uprights that would accept the filed down screwhead?

Thanks Bristol_Rob. I'm now thinking some brackets like these combined with the baton scholar suggested.

Thanks scholar, I like this idea a lot. I'm now wondering if I could make something useful of the baton underneath, perhaps turn it into somewhere to hang some items from.

Thanks paulrbarnard. How would that work? Peanuts on the wall, and corresponding holes on the box?

Yeah I would be nervous trying to route out the 9mm thickness.

Ha! OK, I actually thought it was a good idea; I've used the command strips before and they were pretty good. Yeah brackets like that could work well, I'll see what I can find in brass.

Thanks ChaiLatte. Keyhole hangers would be elegant, but so far I can only find them about 16mm wide. Velcro is also a great idea, would be simple and quite possibly strong enough.

Thanks Etaf. I haven't tried french cleats before but have been wanting to for a while, this could be a good opportunity. I wondered if a cleat in the top left and right sections, glued on three sides to the top and vertical pieces would be strong enough?

Hi all, I've made two of these trinket boxes for the kids, but I'm not sure how best to wall mount them. It was my first go at dadoes and the slotted inner sections and some of the joints aren't the tightest fit, so the glue joints may not be as strong as they could have been. I'm reluctant...

Same here, the connectors went together fine, but the dominos were very tight and had to be sanded quite a lot to allow easy enough assembly/disassembly. Otherwise the connectors have so far worked well. I used one in each corner.

Hi stuart, I used his approach with measuring the height (by seeing how much a straight edge is moved by the blade as it rotates), which is all good. I had trouble securing the blade at that height. The Metabo has a different locking bar to the Electra that he uses, it lacks the locating lugs...

I have this extractor with the cartridge filter and use it with a Metabo HC260. Extraction is good enough with only minimal chips making it onto the floor, although the inlet clogs fairly easily and you can tell because the Metabo is quickly covered in chips! I didn't think this one actually...