Recent content by snedboy

One last detail. I scrounged up a few picture frames. I just needed to find some retro workshop art to put in them This'll do for a start P1060160 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr

Cheers. This will be my last post for a while A while back I cut down the tall shelf units I had in the garage. These were cut down to (kinda) match the height of the wardrobes I rescued P1060121 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr Some extra timber was added to get the height spot on P1060132 by...

I wanted something to put notes and reminders on. With my memory this was going to be essential. I decided to make a chalkboard out of a T4 bonnet Using a heat gun to remove some old vinyl P1060067 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr The glue wouldn't budge. I had to resort to steel wool and...

I'm going to make a chalkboard and then instal some high level shelves and then I'll be pretty much done for now The weather is getting better. I may have made it sound a lot worse than it really is. I'm just back from a weekend at Loch Ness (no sign of Nessie) and the weather was great. Glen...

Thanks. There are so many things like the threaded bungs that I just don't know about until I stumble over them. Or see them on a build thread

I've not posted anything for ages, as I've been re-doing our bedroom. It was so drab it was getting me and Jade down. It's taken longer than I wanted it to as most of the plaster came off with the wallpaper and I bought some 1930s doors that fit like square pegs in round holes. So I thought I'd...

My vice has had a hard life so I decided to give it a quick spruce up. P1050977 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr After ten minutes with a wire brush I gave it a bath P1050979 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr I let it dry overnight, then gave it a coat of Aquasteel rust convertor. I thought I'd try...

I've just started reading your thread. What a great house. I've just moved into a house here in Scotland that we guess was built sometime between 1900 and 1920. We are trying to restore some of the original features but it's been modernised so far that we are really just dabbling. Kudos to you...

Old bedroom wardrobes P1050834 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr Reinforced with 1 x 2 inch timber P1050836 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr P1050837 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr

Cheers. I'm now following you on Flickr, I love traditional hot rods and seeing how they are constructed. I had 4 x 2s with many battle scars from cutting sheet too. The thing with the bed frame was I liked the way it just slotted together. Figuring out what to do with it came later

Thanks for the complement. I think it looks like I'm cutting deep into the timber because it's clamped in my workmate and you can't see all of the wood. I put 2 inch notches into 4 x 2 timber

My dad gave me an old tree stump to use for metal shaping. After storing it in my lockup for months I got it up to the garage. There were some mushrooms growing out of it so I started to cut away the soft, rotten parts. After wasting an afternoon with it I had to give up and ditch it. It was...

The planks were sagging a bit so I added extra crossbars P1050963 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr P1050964 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr Using a straight edge I marked the high areas and started planing P1050965 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr As I evened things up the high areas started to link...

With all my timber cut to length I started notching the joints 2 x 2 inch timber will never actually measure 2 x 2. It'll be roughly that size so I laid everything out and marked out the pieces that were going to go together P1050947 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr I'm not so hot with a chisel...

On with the bench build. The two outer boards (1 and 6) had big holes drilled along their length. This wasn't a problem as I wanted to narrow the bench anyway P1050940 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr I marked up and cut the drilled timber away P1050941 by snedboy sneddon, on Flickr Here's the...