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your workshop looks much the same size as mine and DBT85’s and we are running 10 and 12 of the 2ft panels respectively. These are 6500k daylight units. My ceiling is 8ft and the spread with the ten of them is fine. I do fine marking and lathe work. I do have task lighting on the pillar drill and...

what you really need to do is build yourself a workshop to do this work in. 😉😉

TradePoint doing 18mm ply at £22 was the draw As it was £6 a board cheaper than anywhere else and delivered free. I guess they’d got stuffed with stock as lockdown took hold. The lipping was from Howdens. Door blanks are 44mm thick, heavy and flat. I guess two sheets of 18mm stuck together...

I’d cuss anyone putting a coffee cup on those coaster, simply beautiful work. Love it.

A great shame, but we lose this fine specimen this Friday, Ash die back and suspected Honey Fungus.

I purchased the Fisch 25 HSS Brad point set for more precision work In wood. Expensive, but produce a superbly clean hole for decent timber work. For most work though, I just use a set of bog standard HSS bits from Screwfix and replace when blunt. I’ve never yet managed to sharpen drills to a...

For a workshop I’d have gone for (and did for my workshop build), the 6000k light units The 4000k are a warm light, the 6000k are daylight, IMO a better light for working with materials, measuring tapes and sharp tools in a workshop.

Yes, B&Q cabinets, bought through trade point at 5% off, were £22 each, quite a decent cabinet for the use I put them to. On the bay there are a number of slide suppliers, in the end I used full extension,you lose just a little too much open exposure with the 3/4 extension. The first lot of 3/4...

The bigger problem is actually finding timber at the moment that is fit for making a door. The usual cr@p available at most timber yards and big sheds is no where near stable enough or straight and true to do joinery with. Bring it indoors and it twists and splits like a Can Can dancers legs...

Thanks, Mrs S is well pleased. Unfortunately, she cannot see any project in its finished form until it’s built. Seeing anything on plan means absolutely nothing as she can’t see the 3D visage. the times I’ve had to say ‘trust me, it’ll look great when it’s finished’ didn’t do anything to allay...

Thanks, it’s been a journey I never intended to make on my own, but now having done it, I can (and do) smile every time I open the door. 😀 The fit out inside may take a good few weeks, as this project has now been downgraded by Mrs S to below her kitchen refit which was planned to be done...

Workshop built, lathe should be setup again so I can turn my first item this year. 😀

I’ve just used the same CMT 6mm grooving blade to make my fifty drawer setup in my workshop build. Bang on about hacking cross grain, there is no finess. However, using decent ply and running the material through slowly, it made a really tidy job of grooving for the corner joints and the groove...

Both door weatherboards fitted, four coats of preservative and the doorstop attached. Bolts to inside to join the doors together and one to hold the lower one closed when top open. Just the glass panels and lock to fit when they turn up on Monday. Cleats have been cut and screwed to the right...

I’m still dribbling over a couple of the planes. 🤫 Don’t tell the wife.

I have the DCS331 Dewalt unit. I love it!!! It’s easily as powerful as a 240v unit, but not having a cable makes it so much nicer to use. The weight even with battery is fine. if and when it dies, it will be replaced with another Dewalt battery one, no question. you’ll soon forget about the £30.

the top of the bottom door has a rebate approx half thickness of door. In the rebate, there is a neoprene seal let into a channel. The bottom of the top half has the mirror rebate. See pic two, when closed, the seal is compressed by the top door, no draught. When fitted, there will be a...

Finishing the trim on the door And fitted the hardwood weather board to the opening. Double glazed panels ordered for the top door. First fit is looking good, door stop to fit tomorrow then all the door furniture, remove the whole lot, stain the door and completely refit. what finish for the...

Left side drawers finished. Started bringing up boxes of hand tools from storage in the garage and loading the drawers. The drawers on both sides just eat the tools up 🙂 May have made too many. 🤔 Hinging and adding the door furniture to the stable door next, ready for hanging at the weekend if...