Category: Woodturning & Wood Stuff

Shall I prepare the guest room…

Graeme Skinner

Well, the best laid plans and all that 😉 I decided to have a practice making a box using mainly hand tools (I’ve still not sourced a planer thicknesser that I can use/afford) so I shaped an off cut of Elm for the lid which was good fun, then dimensioned some Maple for the sides by hand and shaped the sides. The workshop was rather cold when I wanted to glue it up so I ended up using a large cardboard box and a fan heater pointing into it to…

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Fun with a plane

Graeme Skinner

We thought it would be a good idea to make a charcuterie board as a Christmas gift, I had some nice timber that was waiting for the right project but I still don’t have my planer/thicknesser working which meant the timber had to be planed and dimensioned by hand…. The Oak was really nice to plane…   Though it wasn’t as fun to plane as this Maple….   In the end we had a nice pile of shavings to get the fire started for a few days 😉   Laying…

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Box 8 2025

Graeme Skinner

Or maybe it should be called a tale of two workshops 😉 I started this box some time ago as a birthday gift for my dad, unfortunately our landlords decided we really should live somewhere else so before I could finish the box I had to dismantle the workshop and finish it in on the edge of a bit of wood surrounded by packing boxes we haven’t had time to unpack yet 🙂 This one is made from quarter sawn oak and wenge, I’ve not used wedge before but it…

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