Make-n-Do

It’s not easy making Christmas presents for grandkids – competing with shiny, noisy things that go ‘ping’.

This job was a long time coming and a long time doing. I could see the cracks in the wall opening wider year after year.

Rust 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.

Six 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.

This 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.

Sometimes 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.

I am blessed to have a double-garage space to work in – BUT – since it also has to accomodate

If 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.

I 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.

Rosie 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.

In 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.

Not 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.

Using scraps and  scrounges, I made myself a rock-solid wood-working bench that will serve me well for a long time to come.

I’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.

On a day when I promised myself I’d make a good start on putting the next issue of CONTACT magazine