[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMvTbqJYmA] In this video I show my two favourite methods for clinching nails and then use the technique for building my tool chest. This was a quick Sunday afternoon project that was great fun to build and should do a...
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Time To Build A Tool Chest
From the first time I traveled to a show to display my workbenches I've been meaning to build myself a tool chest for lugging my hand tools along with me. It's the sort of project that requires quite a lot of thought to ensure everything will fit in nicely so this...
Build A Small Wall Cupboard – Part Two. VIDEO
[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...
Build A Small Wall Cupboard – Part One. VIDEO
[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...
The Wall Cupboard – Downloadable Plan
The Wall Cupboard Plan - Download the PDF Start watching the video. As promised I can now bring you the plan to go alongside our Wall Cupboard Video. We'll take you step by step through this build over three videos and we wanted to provide you with the means to follow...
The Wall Cupboard
I'm currently editing our next video and this one's going to be a little longer with a little more woodworking than what you've seen so far. This will be following a project from start to finish and the complete build will published over three parts. When we set about...
Repairing The Cracks.
The good news is the broken music stand is now back to a full state of repair. The bad news... well that comes in two parts. Having originally built the stand in a very relaxing weekend I'd made a point to really enjoy the whole process. I kept up a steady pace but...
Broken Stand
Completed Music Stand
After a couple of coats of tung oil and some clear beeswax here are the finished photos of the music stand as promised. If you haven’t read Richard’s first post on the stand then you can take a look here. I can always tell when Richard’s enjoying himself because he...
Oak Music Stand
I’ve been working on an unusual commission this weekend; a music stand for the local Silver Band. It’s so dainty and light weight compared to building a workbench yet there were some important considerations when it came to strength especially since this was to be...
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