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Fossil - Le Salvager is my HERO!
Just taking a walk in the woods, ah - that one looks o.k., I'll get me French mate to chop it down, plank it up, oversize tenons, wedges, mortices, done - adjustable shelving for wonky floors! I'd have that any day! (Although I draw the line at the converted 2CV chaise he made... :shock: )
I used to get New Yankee Workshop, thought it was great, but have the same problem with a lot of WW mags - they expect you to have all the tools (I mean - how much does a planer / thicknesser cost?) and just knock it together with the knowledge you;ve acquired over the years...
IF I HAD THE KNOWLEDGE I WOULDN'T BE BUYING THE MAGAZINE FFS!
Just taking a walk in the woods, ah - that one looks o.k., I'll get me French mate to chop it down, plank it up, oversize tenons, wedges, mortices, done - adjustable shelving for wonky floors! I'd have that any day! (Although I draw the line at the converted 2CV chaise he made... :shock: )
I used to get New Yankee Workshop, thought it was great, but have the same problem with a lot of WW mags - they expect you to have all the tools (I mean - how much does a planer / thicknesser cost?) and just knock it together with the knowledge you;ve acquired over the years...
IF I HAD THE KNOWLEDGE I WOULDN'T BE BUYING THE MAGAZINE FFS!
hivisvest72
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I agree with mailman - I love Rico on le salvager, but wouldn't put much of his stuff in my house. I thought the greenhouse he built in one of his series was superb, although he was very lucky finding all those panels just the right size and quantity to make up the 'walls'.
I took a leaf out of his book a few years back and got some old floorboards from a reclamation yard, spent days tidying them with hand tools, hand planers and my thicknesser and eventually made me a garden bench. I'm still well chuffed with how it turned out. The wood cost me all of about £30 in total and they had tons of it stacked up.
Going back soon to get some more to make a matching garden table.
I took a leaf out of his book a few years back and got some old floorboards from a reclamation yard, spent days tidying them with hand tools, hand planers and my thicknesser and eventually made me a garden bench. I'm still well chuffed with how it turned out. The wood cost me all of about £30 in total and they had tons of it stacked up.
Going back soon to get some more to make a matching garden table.
wizer
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I certainly don't 'love' Rico. But at least what he does is honest. He's openly turning scrap into something relatively useful. Tho some of his designs are diabolical. The TV cabinet made from a water tank and fire extinguishers, galvanised ?
