Stu's Shed

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A familiar banner….. Demonstrating the Festool Surfix finishing system (from Ideal Tools) Another very familiar demo tool! Beall Pen Wizard demo Making a tool box with Dad Consultation & discussion Busy day. Lots to see. Price negligible for entry, so no excuse not to come up for a day! There’s a Torque here on special [...]

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Our house (and my shed), cars and yard is covered in a fine layer of ash this morning, after a nearby house burned to the ground around 6am this morning. It was fast. And very quiet. Fortunately not fatal by a neighbour’s account, who wondered about the smoke crossing the road when he was putting [...]

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Kickback is one of those events which reminds you of the power of the machines we use, and just how fast they operate. Timber is often thrown across the shop, sometimes thrown through the wall of the shed, and if you get in its way, the impact is quite unbelievable. Now (thanks to Frank for [...]

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Once the dust system was all connected up and functional, there really wasn’t enough time left to do a whole recording on machine cut dovetail so that will have to wait until another day (still one that is soon, given I am all set up). In the meantime, I wanted to test it out- make [...]

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Was thinking this morning, (while contemplating my overly clean shed) just what men (primarily) do that so commonly gets dubbed a midlife crisis. Perhaps it is taking up diving (sky or deep) Motorcycling (fast rather than tourer) Fast cars Or whatever And it gets categorised a midlife crisis. But perhaps it isn’t a crisis so [...]

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I was out in the shed for a couple of minutes this morning- nothing actually shed related, and had a quick look around. The place looked TERRIBLE. It was in danger of becoming clinically clean- the number of times I’ve been out there in the past few weeks (short each time), and only had time [...]

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The Schwarz (aka Christopher Schwarz) is coming to Melbourne, and it now looks as if he will be running a course at the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking. Talk about being tempted to skip work! A chance to attend a course by “the Schwarz” on making a Roubo Workbench or Anarchist’s Toolbox? May anarchy rein!

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Wixey, meet Torque. Torque, this is the young, accurate Wixey I was telling you about! Been meaning to do it for ages, never looked closely enough to work out precisely how I’d do it but after the second course at Berwick, I was inspired again to see what I could make of my o riginal [...]

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I was back at Berwick Woodworkers today – seems they didn’t get enough the first time around! Actually, they were keeping the number of participants on the Torque course I was running for them down, so everyone got a good amount of participation, and not have it just being a show’n’tell. Here I’d just finished [...]

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You think you’ve seen a few things, reading the magazines, attending the shows, seeing the amazing work the various schools of fine woodworking, marveled at the designs, the finishes, and wished you had the imagination. Had the experience of ordering and subsequently assembling a Tom Dixon coat stand the other day. Looks to be painted [...]

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