Afternoon Experiment with Veneer
A friend, Sandy, suggested trying laser cutting wood veneer (he has plans for a complex design). However, I’d not tried that before, and it sounded like an interesting idea. I’ve often watched people…
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Hardening Steel
I was watching some of Uri Tuchman’s excellent videos, and he mentioned making his own tools; sounded fun, and I now have a garden I can safely try that sort of project in. Kinda fancied making some s…
Resin 3D Printing
I recently received an Elegoo Saturn 2 resin 3d printer, so I thought I’d document my initial testing: These printers print using a 2d array of UV leds which cure a liquid resin held in a tank where U…
Lasercutting Lathe Toolbox
One problem with the lathe is I now have a whole set of chisels lying around the place, which is kinda annoying. I spent yesterday designing a quick tool support to attach to the lathe bench in Fusion…
Wood Turning Lathe!
I've always wanted one of these. When I was wee, we went on tour round England visiting various relations, and I remember being very impressed with a lathe. I've no idea which relation it was, unfortu…
Making a Hammer
Nicola bought me a present for my birthday: a hammer making course at Athelstaneforge! I really enjoyed it! It was a pretty intense few hours though: hitting chunks of hot metal with a sledge hammer t…
Boring 3d Printing: Ceiling Cable Covers
Time for some slightly boring, but useful, 3d printing. When I wired the house, I was planning on adding ceiling mounted wifi access points. However, in the end, I didn't use them. So we were left wit…
Two Wee Woodworking Tools
I used a few offcuts to add some new woodworking tools: I bolted a length of the construction timber to my bench with some "star nuts" and spare M10 carriage bolts. The idea is you put one end of the…
Restoring a Table
I've been watching a lot of restoration on Youtube recently: AT Restoration, Hand Tool Rescue to name a couple. I thought I'd give it a go: there's an old side table that's been in the family for ages…
Another of my Vices
If I'm going to do woodwork, it made sense to install a woodworking vice. I did some research, and found you could buy relatively cheap vices of modern manufacture, which, or you could try and buy an…