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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #63: Bedside Table Update
This is just for those cynical members here…Hi Tom!!! :) As you can see the tables do fit in the bedroom, it’s very ‘cosy’ but functional! hahahaha :D
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #64: Chinese Checkers
With major projects finished for this year, it was time to turn my attention again to Christmas, I have to keep the family occupied somehow, and to keep pulling the Parqués board out every time someone...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #65: Solitaire
After the successful completion of Chinese Checkers it was time to get on with Solitaire, then I will be able to play when I am ‘Billy No Mates’! We played the Chinese Checkers yesterday, and it went...
View ArticleLife as an Amateur Woodworker #66: Happy Christmas
I wish all followers of Lumberjocks, a very Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year, and stay safe! Whatever happens in 2016, it looks as if I am going to be kept out of the workshop for a while yet!...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #67: Work on the Workbench!
My workbench is now a little over a year old, although it is a great bench, I am not 100% happy with it, as the timbers have dried out, they have shrunk, and gaps have opened up between the planks on...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #68: More Saw-horses
Space is at a premium in my Shop, and having two saw-horses, albeit stacked, was space I could not afford, I also wanted some folding saw-horses, because I often find myself working at the...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #69: Towel Rack
The weather here in Colombia is such that, even when it is winter it remains at least warm, we have no heating, and drying clothes, bedding etc. is no problem, we have a covered drying area outside,...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #70: Trying to find a good Router Table design
Last July I blogged about building a new router table as an extension wing of my Table Saw, it worked well, but recently the router started to flex, and no amount of adjustment solved the problem, so...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #71: Yet Another Router Table
Third time lucky?... time will tell! I decided that although I use my router regularly, I don’t do anything complicated, so a simple router table that can be packed away after use is ideal. I have...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #72: Financially limited!
My woodwork seems to have come to a grinding halt, unfortunately my car needs major work on it, which has bit deeply into my finances, so woodwork is confined to using what wood I have in stock for the...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #73: Scrapwood Challenge!
This morning I started out with this mahogany scrap: From which I had decided to try and make two mallets, why I hadn’t made them before I don’t know, I have tried everywhere to buy one down here, they...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #74: A Cheat!
I’m going to have to go on a diet…lol! Our dining room chairs have been breaking one after the other, and we decided that we had to replace them, however on scouting around it was cheaper to buy a new...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #75: Made a start on the Dining Room Suite
I think it will take almost as long to prepare this, as if I made it from scratch! On closer inspection, they used nails to supplement all the joints. Then just covered both the nails and the joints in...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #76: A Tip When Making Simple Sanding Blocks
Before I get underway, the first tip has to be…It doesn’t matter how careful you are, accidents still happen I started cutting for my sanding blocks, don’t ask what happened, I don’t know, I just know...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #77: Back to work!
After a couple of false starts, where I kept stubbing my injured finger, I resumed sanding yesterday, using the orbital sander, to clean up the chairs, using 80 grit, my plan is to go up to 320 grit on...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #78: Murphy has come to visit!
I finished sanding the dining room suite at the week-end, I went from 100, to 200, 320,and finally 400 grit, I decided that, as this is not top of the range furniture, that was sufficient, it is smooth...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #79: Never again!
I finally finished the Dining room suite last weekend: I thought that this would have been an easy project that I would have flipped off in a week or two at the most, but it took much longer. Buying...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #80: A Quickie!
Last month we had an uninvited guest in the house, I freely admit when it comes to snakes, I am a total coward, fortunately I was out, when my wife found it whilst cleaning, and a neighbour dealt with...
View ArticleLife as an Amateur Woodworker #81: Everything has come to a halt!
I know it’s gone very quiet on my Blog, unfortunately that is down to health issues, instead of solving those I had, I seem to be adding to them. I am now in the position where, my spinal column and...
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Life as an Amateur Woodworker #82: It's been a while!
I hope everyone had a Festive Christmas, and I wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year! I didn’t realise quite how long I had been out of the game, until today. I seem to have spent all my...
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