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Hey everyone. I've just posted this in a couple of places and thought I'd share it here as I know some of you also do this. I tried posting the video but it's too large (!) so here's a link to the Instagram Live I did earlier (fair warning, InstaLive is a portrait format video which may cause...

Hey folks. Haven't posted much here for a while as it's all a bit full-on, but I though I'd share this little exchange I had on YouTube with someone who's apparently, "supported and encouraged" me from the start. I put a short video series out a few weeks ago about making a set of shelves for...

Hi Folks In an old ‘workflow’ thread of mine - here - the spreadsheet I used to calculate the carcasses etc.. generated some interest. I’ve recently sanitised this for public consumption and made this simple two-page workbook freely available via Google Sheets, entitled “Single cab.” here -...

As per the title, anybody done this, ditched their landline and used some kind of VOIP solution instead? Long story short, we've just realised we've been paying Sky 15 quid a month for broadband and calls that we don't use, for god knows how long. They won't cancel it as they link it to the...

Came across the MakerCast podcast recently - well worth a listen, if you like that kind of thing. I've only really caught the episodes featuring the guys I know of - Jimmy Diresta and Marc Spagnuolo (Wood Whisperer) but interesting to hear how they started out and ended up on their current...

Having started the year with (for me) a big project it seems that I’ve ended the year with another - though indoors this time. And it also happens to be the occasion of my first curved corner wall; turned out OK:- This was a bathroom adjacent to the main bedroom of a maisonette - the room was...

This is wonderfully insane; a 45 minute video of someone hand polishing a Leica camera body... http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=yout ... zmy8Amb9ro Feel free to skip a few sections ;) Pete

Hey folks. As some of you know, I usually make a living out of making MDF boxes cunningly disguised as fitted wardrobes, alcove units, bookcases and shelving, so this was a bit of a departure for me. A gardener pal had a customer who wanted a summerhouse built, but had exacting aesthetic...

This run of bookcases and cabinets kept me quiet for the last week or so. Fitted into a garden office, it runs around an L-shaped corner, then back on itself with a floor-to-ceiling shallow bookcase, carefully avoiding the consumer unit, sockets, heating and alarm controls on the return. Really...

...by using Maestri brads. Seriously! There was a recent thread about electric nail guns where most people - myself included - had a pretty low opinion of Tacwise. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the other day I loaded up my much-loathed Tacwise 191EL with some brads from my Maestri and WOW...

Hey folks. Just come across the above company - website here - whilst looking for some long levelling feet, and they're a treasure trove of little odds and ends - all manner of feet and knobs and springs and fittings and useful bits and pieces. Cheap postage too, for small orders. If you're...

Hey Folks. I don’t post much here as what I mostly make are pretty bog-standard MDF boxes - wardrobes, alcove units, shelves and storage etc... - but I thought it might be of interest to show how a job progresses from start to finish. I had a call back in September from a previous customer - I...

Hey folks. Customer's just contacted me regarding some problems he's having with a hardwood floor in his kitchen - it was laid (not by me) about 12-13 years ago, and recently (over the course of the last few months) the boards have starting moving and cupping, and now look like this:-...

Well, could you? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7773974.stm 15 questions, 10 minutes to do them in. Brought back a few memories, and not all of them bad ;) And yes, I can pass the 11-plus - 15/15, woot! - though I did take the full ten minutes; as my Primary school teacher said, there's...

Quick question for all you fitted wardrobe/sliding door experts (JasonB?); when you're fitting sliding doors into a wide opening (I'm pricing one up just now that's going to be around 3.9m wide) do you butt two shorter tracks together for the doors, or is there a someone that does a longer track...

Hi folks. Just completed a fun little project so thought I'd share. I don't do many small jobs these days (usually home stuff) but when I do I'm constantly amazed at the amount of gear you need to cart around - being a fairly mobile woodworker I keep most of my gear in Systainers which makes it...

Hey folks. I've built and fitted a couple of wardrobes & top boxes this week with a face-frame and inset doors; I was planning to use cranked Blum concealed hinges and the doors bearing against a simple stop attached to the back of the frame (hinge plates on blocks, obviously), but have had to...

So I've spent the last week (half-term here) re-jigging my son's bedroom - last done four years ago when he was eleven; now he's fifteen and twice the size he was and nothing quite fits any more... Anyway, one of my tasks was to do him a new desk - nothing fancy, just a simple inverted...

OK, so it's not exactly a 'tool', and I don't use expanding foam much myself, but sometimes it the right 'tool' for the job; I used this for the first time yesterday and have to say it's absolutely brilliant - does just what it says. It's a solvent-free expanding foam that comes in a...

Hey there. A friend of my father's has some minor rot in an external corner of a window sill and wants it repairing. The frames are Oak, and he's been told by one guy that he needs to have another piece of Oak scarfed in, whereas someone else suggested that any hardwood would do the job. Is...