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I just got a reminder that the insurance on the old Ferrari runs out shortly. Looks like rain all weekend, so I guess it’s time to get the car ready for it’s winter slumber. This little 2.9 litre V8 engine takes a surprising 10 litres of oil. So off I go to the parts store for 3 jugs of Mobil...

Thanks @Madc Hi @zanyad The verticals are at 5" centers.

Thanks @Prospecter For the tall ones I used an X of steel plumbing strapping. The small ones I generally used heavy fencing wire. With the 3.5” wide leg width and bolted connections they are pretty solid even without the diagonal straps. 1x2 lumber also works well.

Wow, your lights make your 32 look like it’s in a showroom!

The tire changing stand and porch are looking great 👍

Some musing on Ikea utility shelving units: I sold my house to move in to my wife’s (then fiancé’s) house 15 years ago. She and her 3 teenage kids had been in the house since she built it new in 1992. My 2 teenage kids and I had been in our house since 1991. I had built a 2 bedroom suite in...

It’s a rainy Sunday here in North Vancouver, so it seemed like a good time to just putter about in the shop and build some Ikea style shelves for the shed. My small 10’x12’ shop is big enough to work with 8’ lumber if I run the boards diagonally across it. The old Ikea utility shelves I...

Congrats on the major milestone. Turned out great!

I want to build some shelves in the garden shed, so I needed to take head out for some 1x4 boards. It's a beautiful Holiday Monday today, so I thought perhaps I should take the Rav4 on the 10 minutes drive to the hardware store. Nope...Forget the Toyota! I threw the roof racks into the...

Just puttered about in the garden shed this morning doing some organizing. Grabbed some scraps of OSB and made a hanging box to get the sprayer up off the floor. Little things sometimes make a big difference. The sprayer hose was always getting tangled on something, and it's now nicely contained.

It’s always great to see rods and classics taking a chance being out in inclement weather. No fenders, no roof, no wipers…no worries 👍

To determine the final bench width, I temporarily mounted the vise to a board & clamped it to the frame. I worried a bit about the heavy vise being cantilevered so far past the leg. I had planned to use two layers of 1" ply for the top, which was unlikely to sag, but to put more of the weight...

The frame assembly was fairly simple. The four long stretcher bars were each just two boards glued together. Holes were drilled and chiseled into the stretchers and legs for the bolts. I made sure the stretcher holes were large enough to fit an open end wrench. To draw the front curve, I tied...

To build the frame, I started with a stack of Douglas Fir 2x6 lumber. Then I grabbed the DeWalt's from their shelf and dragged them into the garage. I set the table saw up on the trusty workmate, and ripped 1/4" off one side of all the boards to get rid of the beveled edges. Then the other...

Your door looks fantastic 👏👏 Stained glass colours look like your client is getting an early start on their Christmas decorating.

Wow, that end gable truss is huge. Good on you for manhandling that massive beast into place. Enjoying your build thead 👍

Here is the rough bench frame. It’s made out of 2x6 Fir lumber ripped down to 4.5” and laminated together to make square legs. The short stretchers are a laminated tenon joint. The long stretchers are through bolted. The bolt heads & oversize washers are countersunk into the legs so they...

My previous two benches weren’t great. I built my first bench 30 years ago out of 2x4’s and plywood. It wobbled like crazy and the top was way too springy. The second one a decade later was really solid, but I didn’t like that it was attached to the wall. I found the wall mounted bench...

In 2019, I finally got around to building a proper workbench. The workmate with a board clamped in the jaws worked so well as a workbench, that I lived with it as my main bench for 8 years 😳 I had spent some months pondering bench types. I rather liked the proportions of some of the Roubo type...

Only Monza & Imola, Ha ha, that’s funny!! You are the one living every F1 fan’s dream. Living just a couple hours drive from two historic world class F1 circuits is incredible! It’s odd timing reading your post this morning. It got me doing more reminiscing and I realized that my local...