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If you use a wood stove to heat your workshop of house, you will know it is very different to other kinds of heating systems. On of the problems is that unless it is plumbed into a water circulating central heating system with radiators, it can be difficult to get the heat from the stove […]

This week we are finishing off the breakfast bar with some up-cycled car parts!  I’ll not pretend I knew I was going to use scrap car parts for this project – the idea occurred to me as I was dismantling this old Citroën BX car to harvest aluminium to make cnc castings with (see here for […]

We’ve written up an instructable about how we made our conduit-shelf project, which we have been using in the FE workshop for some time. It is basically a weld up of some reclaimed heavy duty metal tubing into a conduit for part of our electrical distribution. The twist is that it doubles as a set […]

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, […]

For over a year now I have been going to a ‘make and mend’ sewing sessions, run by the ever-inspiring Carys of Wench (a clothing label). Looking back, I can see that in this relatively short period I have learnt a great number of sewing techniques and completed many of my pet projects – some of which […]

One of the best things ever is when you can change the context of an object and make it live again.  There is something special about thinking up a new use for something other people have deemed worthless, and having it not just become useful, but actually excel at performing its new function.  The ongoing […]