This is the lifestyle part of our blog, where we write about what we’re up to, what we’re thinking and how we go about earning a living with our hands in this modern world.
As I'm writing this its two o'clock in the morning. I'm not having difficulty with sleeping or anything like that, it's just a new routine that we've temporarily trying out. Sensitivity to the fumes in our workshop, means that standard hours are out of the question...
When you wake up in the fire wood pile with a nose bleed you know that something is going to have to give. I'd been having migraines for a little while which was odd as headaches are not something I've ever suffered with, and I'm rubbish at putting up with it. I'm not...
No...I don't mean my two personalities. When I out grew a small home workshop I had to take our business of workbench building to a new setting. I'd nearly always worked in small wooden buildings so moving everything in to a stark breeze block and corrugated metal...
The extractor bags inflated in to life and the thicknesser whirled up in to action. My knees buckled, back groaned as I took hold and lifted up half a bench top. I eased it on to the table of the thicknesser and heard the familiar sound of the anti-kick back fingers...
A few weeks ago we had a phone call from our good friend Richard Arnold who had a little something which he wanted to offer to me and was able to come out our way. We don't get out much so we jumped at the chance and planned to meet up with Richard and his wife Kate...
I have the most hectic schedule at the moment, as soon as I finish one job there are at least a dozen waiting to be started. Once I've got Richard organised and given him any hand he might need with the benches there are emails to be sent, materials to order and...
We spent a lot of time over Christmas getting our new hand tool workshop ready for filming and so it's probably time for us to bring you up to speed. The most obvious progression since our last post on this is that we've changed building! Getting to know the property...
For the first time since we started Maguire Workbenches we've had a nice long break over Christmas and this has kept us a little distant from here. But now we're back and the focus of this next year is all about creating new videos and stepping things up on this blog....
When we set about purchasing our new site it was spring and there were predictions for a glorious summer, ideal for making a start on this new venture. The purchase did not run smooth though and if a delay was imaginable then it happened; the valuer couldn't...
Most of the buildings at our new premises are in need of fairly extensive works before we'll start using them but I'm looking to gain the benefits of a new hand tool workshop straight away. Since we set up our filming room earlier this year we've had new neighbours...
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Craftspeople don't go in to their work with the anticipation to earn lots of money. Making things tends to come without the desirable salary of other professions, and if it's yourself you're working for then there'll be no so called 'ladder' to climb or the perks and...
There's a time for fettling, restoring and swatting dates in old books. In fact it seems that we spend a lot of time doing these things. Sometimes we need to make the time to build stuff. It's easy to think, "I'll be able to build that once I've tuned this up some...
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