...(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...
I've managed to find some spare minutes this morning so I decided to take a quick look at refurbishing an old wooden shoulder plane which I've had laying around but never used. These rebate planes can often be picked up from car boot sales and flea markets for next to...
Having a keen interest can often come with an ambition to turn it to a livelihood and take it professional. After all what better way to spend your days than doing what you love and being paid for it. I'm not just talking about woodwork here, it could be cooking,...
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 next job in the clean up process was to address timber storage. Timber for me has to be divided in to different groups by it's its use and for some time it's all become merged in to mixed piles. To make it quicker and easier to access the required parts I've...
We've now fully booked and have had to close orders for next month's batch of Little John workbenches. It's been proving a very popular little bench and after a bit of discussion we've decided to commit to a further batch before the end of this year. Deposits can...
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...
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