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Once I have all the carcasses for the kitchen built and no longer need the temporary bench for sheet material, I'll get one of the PKs up into the workshop and start looking at the quadrant castings. I think I can do them myself, with advice from my toolmaker neighbour. If it goes according to...

Nice one Mark :) did it come with any accessories? I haven't touched my PKs or those qudrant castings yet, still working on the kitchen. Cheers Andy

Hi Sammy I used https://www.wholesaleledlights.co.uk For the wall cabs I used their lowest power daylight LEDs, a 3m roll of 4.8W per metre 4000K, 60 x 3528 LEDs per metre. Still plenty bright enough. I put them in their slim aluminium profiles with clip in diffusers, nothing worse than...

I did a bit more at the weekend, I removed the old B&Q wall cabinets and put in the new ones. Again, all birch ply. Then set to fettling the plinth drawers. As drawers in the plinth was an afterthought, there's 4 drawers and 5 cabinets so they did not align, so looked a bit weird. The...

I'm sat on the train, my weekly commute to the smoke, contemplating how to groove the drawers sides for the 6mm drawer bottoms without the groove showing on the drawers sides. I don't mind if the groove shows front or back as you can't see the back and I'm using through dovetails and separate...

I was contemplating whether I needed some parallel jaw clamps for making all the dovetailed drawers. The Axminster HD clamps are £45 each for 600mm, or I could go for the cheaper Axminster trade clamps for £23 each. I would need 4 per drawer so was going to forget it and make my existing clamps...

So while the house is full of kids and its raining, back into the barn and make the wall cabinets. The kreg jig is worth the money for the shelf pin holes. Four of the five wall cabinets assembled, the fifth has to negotiate a ceiling beam so I'll do that once the other four are up and I can...

I've made a fair bit of progress. There was a bit of a design change, the missus wanted shelves in the plinth. So next job was to weld runners onto the frame. Then make some drawers for the base. Screw them to the runners Then move onto installation. Here's half the old kitchen before...

I finished the base this morning, or one of them, I have another run and an island unit to do after this. Rivnuts are very useful, these are aluminium but you can get steel and stainless too. They work just like a pop rivet, however instead of the disposable steel stalk, the screw thread on...

I'm an occasional welder so it's not great but passable for the stuff I make. Fortunately I know some really decent welders, so if I've got something where structural integrity is key, then I get them to do it. For example the hitch bracket on our wood chipper so we can tow it with a quad bike...

I finished welding the base, first cut the legs Weld them on, the front legs get a 11mm hole for the M8 rivnuts I'm using to hold the plinths on. Now bend the frame straight, even with the frame clamped to the table, welding the legs on one side causes a bit of distortion. It didn't take...

I've got a run of five 500mm wide base carcasses built from birch ply, four in a pile and one just about to come out clamps, sorry if the pic orientation is screwed, it's not me, its the website software. Next, build the base/legs, 25mm box section welded. The legs will go on tomorrow, this...

Face frame dimensions.... Utility room carcasses all but complete, I shall take pics later once they have a coat or two of water based poly. We haven't completely nailed the kitchen drawer/door design yet, however its going to be a face frame. Face frame material will be 20mm thick quarter...

Hi Fitz The saw came with toothed belts so difficult to say, but from previous experience there is little or no difference in that respect, but less prone to slip, I haven't used belt dressing on a toothed belt - yet! That gives me an idea, the belt on my Rapidor mechanical hacksaw is a pig to...

These are the belts I have used on my AGS10, they are almost identical to Z section at 10mm x 8mm, however aimed at the car fan belt market. The Z section cogged equivalent are prefixed XPZ, these are 9.7mm x 8mm. AVX10X600 is a 10mm section belt 600mm long. I've swapped out the original 3...

I can't help you with the AGS10 blade guard Sammy, but i did get one for the AGS12. It wasn't too cheap, around 50 quid if my memory serves me correctly. And I finished off the riving knife. Rubbish photo alert, the spacer for the knife, its just a piece of 5mm flat bar with a 10mm slot cut...

Just got back from holiday so not much done but progress being made. I welded up the base of the larder cabinets this morning, it should have taken about and hour but with the kids off school it took me best part of 3 hours. To keep the youngest daughter out of mischief I let her paint it, it...

here's a few more pics The SS sink in the utility, it was made to order by a catering company in Manchester. I looked on ebay and elsewhere for a large double drainer single catering sink, but all were too small to take an appliance either side. And the sliding cabinet underneath pulled out...

No problem, just subscribe to my none existent Facebook page and buy the slot template and plans . You will receive a bag of slots in the post plus carefully written beermat based instructions in code. To decode drink 4 pints of Atlantic Vanilla Porter :)

It's been a while but I have been tickling along the utility room build and the kitchen build is looming so I thought an update is in order. I'm on the weekly commute so my pictures are limited but I have a treat in store, I'm not going to patent my mop bucket cabinet design but open it up to...