It seems to be normal practice to sit a workbench against a wall and this is something I've often done myself. But having worked in many different layouts I now tend to favour bringing the workbench right out away from the wall instead. In a small workshop this can...
I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that draw boring is one of those traditional techniques kept alive only as an ambition for keeping the old stuff in use. After all I'm sure there could be arguement to say that with our good modern glues teamed with the...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19cdRocK_gA] This is part two of our small wall cupboard build. If you haven't seen part one yet then you catch up first by clicking here. This time we're tarting the whole thing up, attaching the face frame, shelf and...
Sorry if we've been a bit quiet of late. Things are just very busy here at the moment since we're well and truly in to our August batch of Little John's. Once again it's a nice change of pace and after a long time spent on the joinery Richard should be starting to...
There's always something being worked on in the background here and many times this has been some variant of the St Peters Cross. Richard has worked on many of these over the years trying out different sizes and manufacturing techniques and we even have a great big...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCX6RZGmiRE] In our current project, The Small Wall Cupboard, we use the rebate joint as the main method of joinery. In this video I show you an alternative approach to cutting the rebate joint by hand with only the very...
...(and I also drink far too much tea!). I'm not writing this post as a lecture or to try and educate you about tool wells, it's more about me asking for your own views and experiences. For pretty much my whole life I've hated tool wells. I was born a tool well hater...
This week I'm on web design duty as we've decided to make a few changes to the overall layout of the blog. I wanted to let you know as a warning because if you see any strange goings on on screen it will just be because I've played about with something and it isn't...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCeO4psh_Oc] The Wall Cupboard Plan - download the PDF So here we have part one of our Wall Cupboard build. As we've mentioned on the run up this is a nice simple project with small material costs so the absolute...
I'm very pleased to say that the first part of our Wall Cupboard video will be available tomorrow. Helen's been hard at it with the editing and though it's taken a few days longer than expected we're learning fast and really starting to enjoy making these - I'm...
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