Making a spinning top from Nana’s wooden bits
All I could think of for a three-year-old’s birthday present was a spinning top. And I made it from Nana’s wooden bits.
Read moreAll I could think of for a three-year-old’s birthday present was a spinning top. And I made it from Nana’s wooden bits.
Read moreMy daughter wanted a clock for the bar in her new home. She explained her design concept and I agreed to give it a go – Make-n-Do style.
Read moreAfter a long absence off the water, I took my stand-up paddleboard out on the Minnamurra River, NSW, on a sunny Saturday in January.
Read moreJust before Christmas 2020, I got my first ever random gift in the mail. Made me feel like a real on-line ‘influencer’.
Read moreThis job was a long time coming and a long time doing. I could see the cracks in the wall opening wider year after year.
Read moreRust on your car creeps up on you over several years and you almost get used to looking at it. Until, one day, you actually decide to fix it.
Read moreSix hours of work in a six minutes of video – that’s a power trip! But, seriously, this powerbank for my power tools is a real asset in my wood shop.
Read moreThis project combines a free table I picked up from FB, with a bedside locker I found on the road – complete with someone else’s rubbish and spiders.
Read moreSometimes you just have to start over – which is the lesson in this video, as I take two attempts to make a near-free miter-saw table.
Read moreI am blessed to have a double-garage space to work in – BUT – since it also has to accomodate
Read moreIf you were left on the edge of a cliff with my last video – The scariest project I’ve ever tackled – welcome back for part2 and final of this epic project.
Read moreI did a very scary project in my shed last year. I wasn’t scared at the time, but looking at the footage now in editing, maybe I should have been.
Read moreRosie bought me a new powertool recently – a planer thicknesser – and it has served me very well on many projects thus far in my wood shop.
Read moreIn the fourth video of my new Make-n-Do series, I demolish my original, built-in workbench, now that I have a rock-solid bench on wheels.
Read moreNot clickbait – I seriously did bust a huge hole in the side of my two-storey brick-veneer house (on purpose) – and the house is still standing.
Read moreUsing scraps and scrounges, I made myself a rock-solid wood-working bench that will serve me well for a long time to come.
Read moreI’m starting a new vlog series from the editor’s wood shed called Make-n-Do, which = making do with limited cheapass tools and because doing makes better.
Read moreI got a new lens – a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS III USM – and she’s a beast. I got this
Read moreI’m known to have an opinion or three – and this issue of a “Royal Commission into Veteran suicide rates
Read moreOn a day when I promised myself I’d make a good start on putting the next issue of CONTACT magazine
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