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There are so many different reasons someone might catch the woodworking bug, and in so many cases it will be a combination of many small triggers. I think the toys you have as a kid can play a big part: it is the first experience of just how real timber products are. I wrote about [...]
Filed under: Shed, Techniques, Wooden Toys | Tagged: kids toys, Lufthansa, Woodwork | Leave a Comment »
Even from early shed days, there was an interesting trend in the colour schemes in the shed, that paralleled where I was at in terms of equipment, and woodworking in general. From slow beginnings, almost a precursor stage where there was an influence of GMC Blue. This expanded somewhat, but then Triton orange appeared, and [...]
Filed under: Shed, Shed Dweller, Techniques, Tools, Wooden Toys | Tagged: Festool, GMC, Table Saw, Torque, Triton, Woodwork | 1 Comment »
23 January 2012. My daughter’s 5th birthday, celebrated with a large party of family and friends a couple of days ago, and on her actual birthday with grandparents, lots more presents, and time. For a year or so before Jessica was born, I was heavily invested (timewise) in the Australian Woodwork Forums, moderating, writing and [...]
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Had an idea to jazz up my tool storage cabinet with some strip lighting, and among the various choices at Ikea, found just the lighting system I wanted. This takes very low wattage LED strip lights, which can either be connected together in a long strip, connected in a square, or connected with longer cables [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Shed | Tagged: Ikea, LED lamp, Light, Light-emitting diode | 3 Comments »
I picked up this unit for a completely different purpose, but it looks decidedly suitable for the shed as well Cost was $150 from Bunnings – 1420 high, 914 wide, 361 deep, so we are talking a pretty significant unit. The bottom two shelves are 2 large containers wide, two shelves of 3 containers, and [...]
Filed under: Shed, Tools | Tagged: Bunnings Warehouse, Container, containers, shelves | 1 Comment »
I found a phone the other day – sadly the owner had lost it, and it had subsequently been run over as well (not a happy phone!) To have a look at the contact list to find the owner, I had to dig up an old phone to put the SIM into and in my [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Shed, Tools | Tagged: Apple, Christmas, Sawstop, Tools, Woodworking, Workshop | 1 Comment »
When I was first introduced to the Torque workcentre, one of the thoughts that crossed my mind about this overhead routing platform, was whether it could in some way be used with a Spirograph. So I went looking for a set. After failing on a number of avenues (and not bothering to head down the [...]
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I’ve recently moved offices at work, and am taking the opportunity to do a pretty ruthless cleanup at the same time. 10 years of accumulated junk really builds up fast. Lots of items that were kept on the assumption (or hope) that they had residual value, that they would prove useful down track. In my [...]
Filed under: Shed, Tools | Tagged: Babble, Magnet, Residual value | 1 Comment »
I had an interesting chat today with Promac (the importers/distributors of Tormek, Flai, BMI amongst others). We catch up occasionally, such as at the recent wood show where they created a number of new proud T7 owners. After my recent article in ManSpace, I wasn’t surprised that they rang. The article of interest was on [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Shed, Shed Dweller, Techniques | Tagged: BMI, Carrolls Woodcraft Supplies, Flai Mustang | 8 Comments »
With the router table at one end of the shed, and the overhead router/TWC at the other end, I haven’t had the motivation to move the router bit storage, until now. Needing some additional wall space down the lathe-end (for the additional chisel store) meant moving the router bit storage became the ideal solution. For [...]
Filed under: Project, Safety, Shed | Tagged: Router, Triton, Whiteside, Woodworking | 7 Comments »
After getting a good general idea of the layout recently, I had a look around the shed on Sunday, and decided that instead of just doing a general cleanup until such time as I got frustrated, I thought instead to focus on an individual area and really get it to how I want it, rather [...]
Filed under: Shed, Shed Dweller, Techniques | Tagged: Carbitool, Lathe, Magnetic Storage | 9 Comments »
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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