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Again, no photos of it, but i treaded the exposed edges of the leather sides with some Seiwa Tokonole leather edge treatment stuff and burnished the edges with a leather burnished i made from some scrap on the lathe. I also branded one of the sides with my makers mark. I think it turned out...

Dont have photos of the underside of the base, but i used some cut down screws as well as epoxy to fix the stainless steel to the maple. I ended up using a bunch of spring clamps to glue the mdf halves together but after a little sanding following the glue up it turned out ok Next step...

My siblings and i have bought a really nice Hamilton Jazzmaster Viewmatic watch (not the ones in the photos!) for my dad’s 60th birthday in a week time, so i made this watch stand to go with the watch we got him. So i picked a scrap i have of some fiddleback maple for the base The main...

My siblings and i have bought a really nice Hamilton Jazzmaster Viewmatic watch (not this one!) for my dad’s 60th birthday, so i’ve made this watch stand to go with the watch we got him. Fiddleback maple base with chunks of stainless steel in the base to weigh it down and keep it stable. The...

Latest complete project - guitar pedal board for my brother’s 30th birthday. Walnut frame - birch ply top with velcro covering - branded leather logo which is framed with snake wood - stainless steel jack socket surround I turned on the metal lathe, which is surrounded with a little bit of...

Thanks all for the suggestion!

Could someone please help... I’ve been brought up on metric threads, so dont have much experience with the various alternative imperial thread types. I need to get a nut for a bolt which has a thread pitch of 16tpi with an outer diameter of 12.5mm and a shaft of diameter of 11.0mm. I’ve looked...

Well spotted, an astute observation. So the hinges are already mortified into the carcass leg, but not yet into the doors - that’s next! As you’ve already said this is a labour of love, so I agonise and over analyse the decisions I make on this, and being a structural engineer probably makes...

Thanks for all the comments. Yes, very pleased with it... so far so good! Will try to show any (slow) progress on here

I’m pleased with these African Blackwood hinges so far. Got bronze bushings integrated to increase their life by, hopefully, many decades... also no squeaking from wood on wood :D More photos of the cabinet here if interested...

Thanks for the kind comments. Maybe I got very lucky, or maybe it was my very slow progress allowing slow acclimatisation, but the burr panels are absolutely solid!! I even tired bending the panels by hand and it didn’t even bend much. It’s surprisingly dense. So i’m confident that they’ll...

So far, i’ve morticed the hinges into the carcass, but have yet to mortice them into the doors. Note that the steel sticking out the bottoms are purposely too long before permanent fitting. One side has an exposed hole which will have an african blackwood plug glued in place. Note that the...

The mortice and tenons are cut and the door frames are cut and dry fit together with the burr panels in place. and following glue up, this is one of the doors with the long strips of African Blackwood to frame the burr Now coming to the hinges. I decided to give it a go making wooden...

These are the buttons laid out roughly on the top, ready to And buttons in place. This is the top and the breadboard ends in place. And this is (shamefully) how the full cabinet has been left for a good couple of years! So now on to the doors. I was lucky enough to get hold of a...

This was the most stressful glueups i’ve ever endured!! I pre glued as much as i could separately, but a lot of the main carcass needed to be glued at the same time... it was a panicked nightmare!! I also glued it up in the house (to the OH’s dismay) as workshop was too cold at the time...

This is the main frame with the top and base loose fit. And i already know that the top rail didnt need to be so deep... live and learn :) Some of the side and rear panels resawed and planed. This is a dryfit of the centre portion of the carcass. And the side panels. All of the innards...

So i’ve shamefully had this project on the go since 2017!! So far this is by far the largest and most complicated thing i’ve made (or am still making). It’s all traditional joinery and largely made of solid oak. The doors have solid Oak Burr floating panels which are framed with African...

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I was after some sort of small bandsaw or portaband for occasionally cutting metal, and in searching i found a scheppach portabandwhich i assume is the same one that Screwfix sell for around £210, for sale on the Aldi website which is down to £115!! But with delivery it was £121.94...

Hi Brian, That's very generous of you! If I've not been beaten to the punch already, could I please take it off your hands?