Archive for October, 2010

Playing with my router today.

by: Gromett October 27, 2010

I finally got round to playing properly with my router today.  Up to now I have just used it for making rounded edges and “attempting” to cut the slots in the mdf boarding. I made a rather complicated profile strip from Meranti.  It is a 50mm x 50mm piece 1mtr long which has 2 slots [...]

Installing Windows

by: Gromett October 26, 2010

Mark it up and drill first hole.

The new van. Photos

by: Gromett October 26, 2010

Firstly, these picture are after I had scraped, gouged and sanded all the decals and other rubbish off the van and given it a coat of paint.  The bumpers still need cleaning up. It was in a sad old state when I bought it but unfortunately didn’t have a camera at that time to take [...]

Mortice and Tenons make great doors

by: Gromett October 20, 2010

I was able to have 4 solid days in the joinery workshop this week so I redid all the doors that I had made with lap joints basically because they were not up to a standard I could stare at for the next 2 years. I have redone all the doors using mortice and tenon [...]

Full Timing with Children? Education?

by: Gromett October 20, 2010

Just got this link from a post on MHF and it makes very interesting reading.