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Hi Steve thank you for your reply, I read that entire thread across three days and thoroughly enjoyed it! I was actually warned about that issue and I pressed ahead anyway. I'm disappointed I did because every joiner/woodworker that sees them knows they are designed badly. The location of them...

One door went together easier than the other. The one I was putting together outside was splaying the stiles so I clamped it vertically as I went (see dramatic recreation below): I used a stick and nail to measure along the diagonals. I can't believe how bang on both doors were. I'd like to...

It's been around a fortnight since I last posted, and while I have been working on them it was only today that I did anything really post-worthy. I did cut my maple loose tongues on Easter Monday. I resawed some offcuts I grabbed from my local timber supplier on my little bandsaw, prizes for...

I left the plate on the router to cut the tenons. I set the depth of the router from the mortice in the stile rather than making a numerical measurement. It was a pretty quick operation on the whole, but I took the time to set up a fence as I didn't back myself to freehand up to the line I...

As I'm sure you all realised, the hollow chisel morticer issues were a very convenient excuse for me not to cut the mortice and tenons. This could only last so long, and I decided to take the forstner bit to the top and bottom rails and a twist drill to the centre rail. I've positioned my...

That looks incredible Do you have any photos of how those fluted panels are scribed against the wall? It's always a stress of mine to scribe a fluted column piece as I find I'm drawing attention to a slightly out of plumb wall TIA

I went to insert the tongue cutter, and realised that the cutter needed to begin a little beneath the table surface. My existing router plate insert only has a 32mm hole (largest my stepper bits go to) so I knew I would need to cut the hole with the router. I therefore set about making a new...

I started by marking out the mortices and went over to my morticer only to find it making the loudest chattering noise I've ever heard. I'd recently swapped out the little slot head grub screw it came with for a 3/8 bolt (with 15mm bolt head) I thought the heavy head of the bolt was...

Hi Bodgers thank you for your reply and interesting feedback on other wood choices. Hopefully this project will give rise to more opportunities to explore more outdoor projects and those other woods mentioned. And thank you everyone for your patience. Please don't take the radio silence as a...

As it was just me moving them around, I decided to put the 6mm backing on in the bedroom After constructing both bookcases. I made an 'H' frame and nailed a 6mm sheet to that. The frame only needed to support the 6mm on the front and in the centre as the top and bottom would be supported by...

DAY 4 Life got in the way for the rest of the week, and it wasn't till Saturday (yesterday) that I could do any more. I started with making the window seat. This is my favourite part of the whole project, and not even because it's simple. I really wanted the bed to be a frame for the window. I...

DAY 1 Been prevaricating on this one a while. When I found out last week that I'd be waiting ~1 week for my wood order for my garage doors (WIP found here: topic111103.html ) I thought I'd squeeze it in. My sister's bedroom is 2.5m wide. Her new mattress is 1.9m long so there's room head and...

Wood ordered That's my cutlist I thought I'd get them to dimension it. If time weren't a factor I'd probably do it myself but I've already spent a bit longer than I thought I would on the project. Bad news is it's ready in a week, and came in at £804. I don't really know how I've done for...

TFrench - I'll be sure to post on here when I do that workbench as it seems to have some interest. I think it's a few months off yet, I'm working on temporary benches and stations at the moment as I still find out how to use the space. I get your dilemma with the RAS. I think the reason Frank...

I didn't do anything yesterday as I was in London Today I put in a shift but I don't really know how much there is to show for it; really I guess it was a day fraught with errors. I made a start on the sill. I had already squared up three sides of this so it was just a case of cutting to...

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Bodgers I have exactly the same situation as you. We have those covenants in place, but the trust will only kick off if a neighbour complains, they're unlikely to spot it by themselves. I replaced my up-and-over with a roll up door so I could build cabinets and have tools right up to the doors...

As far as I know the idea is my own, but I've done quite a few things in that shop so far that I thought was a new idea and turns out loads of people have done it! The roubo would support the lhs and the offcut on the rhs would be supported by the welding table that will replace that butcher...

Many thanks to all for help so far, I can't tell you how lost I would have been without it wip-workshop-doors-t111103.html Here is the start of the WIP. As you can see I'm a bit behind my self-imposed schedule. I've really been battling against the weather here. Embarrassingly little to show...

For security reasons, I recently decided to build some new side hinged wooden doors to replace my mess of a gliderol door I initially settled on a beautiful set of carriage doors with raised panels and patterned glass inserts. This would have worked well with existing front doors in my area...