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Archive for March, 2012

Making a Wood Burning Stove -3 The Burning Chamber

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Beginning to Weld! Ok so the weather is going bazaarly hot, what better way celebrate than by donning the welding gauntlets, sweaty mask and continuing the sideways-burning, self-loading stove project (see the first instalments if that makes no sense). We get the welding ball rolling by tack welding the primary and secondary burn chambers together.   […]

Mobile mitre matters

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Long have I been jealous of Bongo’s combination mitre saw and table saw, and his ability to quickly and easily to produce accurate cuts of any angle. This was never a problem when I lived down the road but since moving away to the country I have had to rely on either jigsaw or circular […]

Switching to upcycled

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Light is good. Dark is dangerous, in the workshop at least. As I have been working out on/in the ‘shop ’til quite late many evenings over the Winter, getting some proper lighting going on will be quite blissful. It is surprising how tiresome working in poor light conditions can be. Being a rather large space, […]