Got to see the kitchen I made before Christmas in its final, painted glory. The model is my daughter at her friend’s birthday party.
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The Most Useless Machine
Posted on January 18, 2010 by Stuart
Got sent a link to this: “The Most Useless Machine” Well, I liked it Looking at the site it came from – one I hadn’t come across before called “Instructables“. At first glance, looks like it is in the same niche as Howcast.
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Some Final Kitchen Photos
Posted on December 10, 2009 by Stuart
These are the last photos I took before the kitchens were delivered to their new homes. When the painting is finished (by the new owners) I hope to get some of them in their finished state (might be Xmas day photos, given how much time is available to them to get the paint jobs finished!) [...]
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Hayley’s Kitchen
Posted on December 7, 2009 by Stuart
During the build of the toy kitchens, someone was actually following along, and even better, managed to start after I did, and finish before! Looks cool seeing another version, finished, painted, and most importantly, being enjoyed From Shane’s emails: Hi Stu, I just wanted to send you a quick email to say thanks for your [...]
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Paying Lip Service
Posted on December 1, 2009 by Stuart
When thinking about the kitchen as a whole, the sink has some ‘special’ features – the sink, taps, faucet. The stove/oven has as well – a grill in the oven, routed stove elements, the door and knobs, but when I thought about the fridge, it seemed a bit plain, and more cupboard-like than fridge. So [...]
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The Ghost of Weekends Past
Posted on November 30, 2009 by Stuart
Not really sure what happened to the weekend – vanished in a puff of ethereal smoke (or was that just a cloud of MDF dust that got so dense it momentarily became self-aware?). The workshop is covered in the stuff, despite 20 cubic metres/hr of air filtration, and the 2HP TruPro dusty. Some of the [...]
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Toy Plans
Posted on November 24, 2009 by Stuart
I’ve been looking through some plans that the “Roving Reporter” bought to my attention from Enjoy Making Wooden Toys. Some interesting designs in there, and a kitchen set that looks quite similar to my original one (not saying either copied the other – it is a pretty logical design, and both look good ) The [...]
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Movin’ In
Posted on November 23, 2009 by Stuart
It was definitely a weekend revolving around the new tool (understandably), from the pickup/delivery organising on Friday, the assembly (and getting it into the shed) Saturday, and commissioning it with some real tasks on Sunday. If you were wondering how I was going to fit a 2.5m x 1m tool in my workshop, well, you [...]
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Continues….
Posted on November 15, 2009 by Stuart
Today was very much more of the same – I broke down the last 2 sheets of 2400×1200 MDF (one 12mm, the other 16mm) using a circular saw and a guide. I really have a very low opinion of circular saws – dislike using them at the best of times. The real danger comes with [...]
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Toy Kitchen Build
Posted on November 14, 2009 by Stuart
Got to kick the build of 2 kids’ kitchens on quite a way, and made extensive use of the Festool Domino in doing so. The precise, and repeatable placement of mortises really came into its own, and certainly helped a great deal with part alignment and project strength. With 4 modules, all with identical sides [...]
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Little Snoopy
Posted on October 25, 2009 by Stuart
In Stephen King’s epic series, “The Dark Tower”, he writes about the Gunslinger’s world, and how it has “moved on”, and by doing so things have become strange, lost, changed in unforeseeable ways. It is very much how I feel about our world – it most certainly is not the one I grew up in, [...]
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