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Thank you, I am pretty proud of it. It was my first attempt at solid wood furniture making, and I don’t think I could have hoped for better really. Yeah she loves it.

That’s fantastic! Shame it’s not out front, would make directing people to the house easy 😂

Nothing left now but the grand(?) reveal... I’m pretty delighted by how it’s turned out. The proportions are perfect, no joinery mistakes, and it looks great! I wouldn’t make the same choice with the resin. Strips of wood to create a stripe pattern that complements the sap wood would have...

I used an oil based gloss varnish (never again!) for the oak top. It took a good number of coats to get a nice consistent finish, sanding with 800 grit between. Fortunately the varnish mostly filled the pin holes left from the resin pour resulting in a really decent finish. It also filled...

Next up I turned the workshop into a scene from dexter, and then it was time to spray. I did a ****** job of protecting everything unfortunately. The sliding table for my AC216TS, my block plane and various other items are now covered in a very fine layer of emulsion 😱. I can’t say that...

ha thanks! It’s a bit fiddly to ensure a good mortise but I do feel like perfecting the right technique/jigs will result in relatively quick use. Im not going to go to the lengths of some of the home made mortisers that I’ve seen on YouTube, but I have some ideas for simples jigs that may work...

Id love to get some feedback. If anybody has comments on how I can improve, or if I’ve used the wrong terms, anything. I really love learning from other people’s experience, it’s so much quicker, easier and cheaper than learning from my own 😂.

Joinery time! I learned very quickly that my experimentation with cutting mortises with the router had proven it was doable, but hadn’t addressed how to use the router with small pieces. The router guide needed enough “meat” otherwise it just wouldn’t work. I managed to throw together a jig...

Evening all 🙋🏻‍♂️. Back to making progress on the base, I clamped up my rough cut pieces to give me an idea of dimensions. Obviously the sizing was well out, but it was valuable to give me an idea of proportions for the legs and stretchers. I took a punt on proportions and shortened the...

At this point I had to start making decisions about joinery. I decided that I wanted to experiment with loose mortises. Not being able to justify Festool money yet, I’d have to figure out dominoing with my trim router... Some practice and trial and error with jigs showed enough promise for...

Over the summer I made shaker style cabinet doors using twisted poor quality pine timber from diy stores with predictable results. I learned lessons from that unfortunate experience and this time spent some money with my local timber yard and picked up some quality oversized pine that I could...

Thanks Lazarus. With no experience it’s difficult to know what a bad pour would look like (aside from a resin covered workbench 😂), so it’s nice to hear that I’ve somehow done well.

I’ll update this a bit later. For now, I’m going to go and make big wood into smaller wood.

After a nerve wracking night, re-entering the workshop in the morning I was greeted with.... no disaster 🥳. Setting about demoulding, I discovered my first error in not using anything for mould release. Fortunately the epoxy was only bonded to the melamine in a few places, and other than...

This was my first time using resin, so the growbag tray was a great stress reliever. If the mold leaked, at least the workshop wouldn’t be covered in a solid layer of resin.

This was my first foray into solid wood furniture making after tinkering with some pretty successful MDF projects. My wife bought me a lovely piece of oak for my birthday (as you do) and I was inspired to use it as the top for a new sofa side table. The overall design would be a classic...

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I've been researching finishes in general and have had trouble finding a resource that seems trustworthy, can anybody recommend a book/website/video that will give me a good starting point?

I have made a dressing table with baltic birch ply and have painted the surfaces whilst leaving the end grain exposed. I intended to add some varnish (Ronseal Interior Varnish) for protection but when applying to a hidden area it left a lot of milky streaking which some research tells me is the...