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The second issue of Manspace Magazine will hit the shelves shortly, and again with a number of articles by yours truly. Articles in there by me are: Quick Drawers – on how to make drawer liners for your tool drawers from foam Torque the Talk – an article on the Torque Workcentre Solution with Teeth [...]
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I have never tried this before, but thought we’d try the Halloween pumpkin carving thing. Bit wonky perhaps, but for something not tried before, and done freehand, it’ll be be good to have for the trick-or-treaters tomorrow night The things you do when you have kids! And only one cut that drew claret- the ol’ [...]
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A huge congratulations to Marc & Nicole on the birth of their son Mateo Xavier Spagnuolo Healthy, and at 33 weeks was just a little impatient to check out Dad’s workshop (Marc is the American podcaster/blogger/woodworker, well known as “The Wood Whisperer” if you were wondering about the relevance to this blog. First Matt, then [...]
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What I find more even more interesting when looking at old magazines, old newspapers, old National Geographics, is not the articles, but the adverts. Those things that cause us endless annoyance, or at least distractions (unless particularly pertinent, targeted to the audience of the magazine) become increasing fascinating as they age. That is one just [...]
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Proving that it is not the tools you own, but how you use them
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Despite having been a long time user of Ubeaut waxes and polishes (almost as long as I have been doing this woodworking caper), just using a product doesn’t make one an expert. So I took the opportunity of last weekend to actually stop by the Ubeaut stand, watch one of Neil’s demos and see what [...]
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One plane to find them One plane to bring them all And in the Woodshop bind them. I was speaking with Matt Reynolds at the show, apparently a long-time reader of Stu’s Shed, and from a plane sock he pulled out something he’d made a few weeks earlier. A plane, and what a plane! You’d [...]
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Every few years I head along to the Royal Melb Show, and have a look at what is on offer there. Know what I see? Variety, entertainment, and SHOWBAGS! I keep looking each time for a bag orientated more towards me (yeah, chocolate etc are still interesting), and I’m not talking of the Ralph showbag, [...]
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It was the best of joints, it was the worst of joints, it was the age of modern methods, it was the age of traditional techniques At the woodshow you see many different items made by many different methods. Domino, dowel, screw & glue (thankfully not much of that!) but by far what you see [...]
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Nice little spike in hits over the past couple of days- guess if people haven’t been finding me where they were expecting at the show (sorry about that), they’ve come here instead Over 35000 visits for the month already. You guys sure know how to encourage someone to keep doing what they do. Planning on [...]
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Spent the day kickin’ tyres down at my usual haunt- the Melbourne wood show at the Showgrounds. This year it is different for Stu’s Shed- I’m not having to try to take in the show in 5 second bursts, and instead can wander at leisure. It was a really strange feeling looking at the Torque [...]
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For every shed owner (and the term ‘shed’ is very loosely defined), there is an equal number of reasons and justifications why we willingly trudge out there as often as we can. Equally too, how so many purchases are justified as being crucial to ongoing shed operations. As a friend liked to say “I only [...]
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