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Having another go in the workshop today. I am going to make a side table. I've made these before and find them easy to make.

I do so admire all you hand tool only users. The only hand tool that I can handle with any accuracy is a hammer. Can't wait to see the end result Alan

I asked my wife what am I not very good at ? She said "***" :) :shock: :shock: "compared with who " I asked :D :D :D

Thank you all for your kind replies, I won't give up just yet I promise :D :D Alan

Hello AES Thank you for the link. Having looked at it i am going to send the drawing to my Daughters partner who is in engineering and see if he could make me something similar. Thank you Alan

Sorry this should have gone in Projects :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: But here are some more that I did to use up my timber I can normally give these as they are made to ladies that run the village coffee mornings. I also take some to our local Tenovus charity shop as a small...

This unfortunately could be my last project. I’m 82 have arthritis in my knees and ankles which after a short time in the workshop turns pleasure into pain. Lately I have also developed severe stabbing pain in both of my thumbs which makes me very wary when using power tools...

Bought my wife the latest face mask. told her she had to wear it throughout the lock down as ordered by HMG. She said "I'm not wearing that it looks like a gag" Damm I didn't think she'd notice. :D :D :D :D :D :D

It's soooooo quiet in our village since the lockdown. I was in the workshop today when I had the wind :oops: :oops: :oops: and a woman from two streets away said " Pardon you " :D :D :D

My wife and I are self irritating already :D :D :D

Sprinkled some Viagra dust in my wife's tea. The look on her face when she dipped her biscuit in was a joy to behold

I purchase the latest version and just before the old Norton is about to expire I go to setting and uninstall the old version and then install the new one Alan.

This is the method I have used, 2 x2ft lengths of quarter inch flat steel strip bolted to the post with 10 mil threaded rod. Dig a hole, place shuttering around the top, place the post in the hole keeping it clear of the shuttering with a 2inch thick wooden block, ensure it is upright and fill...

A number of years ago I somehow managed to pop my finger into a 12 inch spinning saw blade. I went to our local cottage hospital but they were unable to do anything other than put a dressing on and send me to Bangor as it needed to be x-rayed as the bone was showing. She wrote a note to take...

Welcome aboard, you will not be disappointed as you will find a wealth of information on here, and remember there is no such thing as a silly question. Alan

Years ago we had a new nurse start at our colliery and she was a looker :D even more so in her nurses uniform. A group of us, fitters and electricians, were waiting for the paddy train to take us out and were discussing her attributes, and I leave you to guess what they were when along came...

I love the WIP pictures. May you have as much use out of it as my Girlfriend (now my wife ) had out of the one I made for her prior to us getting married in 1957. I made mine with Obeche frame with oak faced panelled ply. It's still in use albeit now in the loft. I must confess yours is far...

Wow, Beautiful. I wouldn't leave it in the workshop where it's going to be hammered, I'd have it on show in the house. :D :D :D :D Alan.

Excellent, I love it and so would my daughters if I let them see them. I don't really need any more "Dad could you just make me" projects. :D :D :D Alan

About 2 years ago I posted about my latest purchase, a tandem, so that my wife and I both in our late 70s could enjoy some of our fun days we had when we were in our teens. It didn't work. She was very nervous each time we went out. We persevered but she was not happy so the tandem ended up in...