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Been using a Minolta 7D digital camera for a lot of the images for this site (around 1300 to date), and have been using Minoltas for the last 20 years. FWIW, I was awarded an Associateship of the Photographic Society of New Zealand in 1999 for my photos I took in the New Zealand Navy. [...]
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Came across a cricket set in a local sports shop sale, that was only $5, so I saw an opportunity to make it suitable for my 2 year old. It is made from a smooth, white, soft, grainless timber (no I don’t know what it is), but it looked perfect for someone with a bandsaw……. [...]
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There are many different techniques for joining to pieces of timber, both traditional and modern. One that is proving quite resilient is pocket hole joinery. It is a modern development of the more traditional “glue and screw” method, and using a fundamentally simple concept, produces a surprisingly strong joint, even when glue is not used. [...]
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Was in Bunnings this afternoon getting a few bits’n’pieces, and one I was hoping to find (but seriously doubting I’d find) was a Triton Woodrack. Like Superjaws, you are hard-pushed to have too many. After (unsurprisingly) not finding one, I just asked in the tool shop if they happened to have any woodracks. The young [...]
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From the “roving reporter”: how to beat the heat with Triton FWIW, Melbourne is having its hottest week in 100 years. 26C 36C 41C 43C 40C 40C 30C 79F 97F 106F 109F 104F 104F 86F Not shed weather for a non-insulated steel heat box. (Update, temps now 26, 36, 41, 43, 44, 43, 37, 33 [...]
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The blackboard I made a few years ago as a quick demo used blued cut tacks to hold the actual blackboard in the frame (simple rebate). Finally had proof why cut tacks weren’t the ideal solution. Over time, with the blackboard being used by enthusiastic artists, the tacks worked their way loose- a symptom of [...]
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I happened to be wandering through the house around 2am, when I noticed both cats quietly perched at the backdoor, staring out. I had a look to see what was capturing their attention, and noticed the back yard awash with light. I’d left the shed door wide open, and the lights on inside, and I [...]
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As part of my overall Spring Clean, I have been addressing timber storage in the shed. I have been using a couple of Triton Woodracks with great success, but hadn’t had a chance to finish the job. When I first mounted the woodrack in the shed, I chose to set the two uprights quite a [...]
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It was Australia Day today (for those who don’t live in Oz – anyone here can hardly miss the fact!), and I did quite a traditional Australia Day thing – no, I didn’t head straight out to the shed to sit around consuming a few cold ones. It was the family picnic, and this time [...]
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The bush fires that threatened Carrum Downs earlier in the week didn’t impact on the shed at all, but they were not that far away – about 5 minutes by car. Granted that they did not reach the scales of significant bush fires (or wild fires depending on your terminology), but like many (and the [...]
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I was in a local hardware store very recently, and was sad to see just how deficient the offerings of Triton equipment have become in a very short space of time. I always said that I’d love to see a dedicated shop in each main city, but I guess that wasn’t viable. The other option [...]
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I’ve spoken recently about dado blades, and the results are going to start appearing soon, but I haven’t actually mentioned what a dado blade is. Seems a bit strange defining it, but there again a few years ago I wasn’t sure what a dado blade actually looked like (I knew a bit of their function [...]
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