Some time ago, I bought a mitre fence with a box joint jig. Today I thought I’d learn to use it.
Makevember 7th Several Box Joints
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Makevember 6th A leg vise mount.
I was lucky enough to acquire a couple of leg vices. I thought I would mount one on my particularly sturdy table…
Makevember 5th A particularly sturdy table.
Makevember 4th Kitchen cabinet infill panel
This should have been done a year ago. We made a kitchen, mostly from scratch, but we reused a back panel for some units which ended up being six inches too short.
For various reasons, this hasn’t been finished off. It just needs a little panel to cover the gap.
Continue readingMakevember 3rd Chain hold down tool
Makevember 2nd Ring Pull Lifter
Todays object is a ring pull lifter.
The idea came from Nicholas Wicks’s “The Everyday Blacksmith”. I like the book because it gives a very simple set of pictures which illustrate how to form the objects.
MakeVember the 1st
So… I noticed a couple of #makevember posts on twitter.
I struggle at this time of year. The shortening days leave me with progressively less and less motivation. Less drive to complete things and a generally low mood. I snap out of it sooner or later – there is generally a point where I consciously start to improve my immediate environment and that triggers a virtuous spiral of “doing stuff” which makes me happy.
So.. Makevember is about making something each day of November. It’s not a big thing, nearly 200 people follow the Makevember retweeter. I think it was more popular a couple of years back. The original manifesto is at… https://chickengrylls.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/the-makevember-manifesto/
Continue readingHere be Dragons!
I’ve recently started doing a bit of welding. I’ve made a couple of dragon heads. Why would I do that….
Continue readingMeccano Model for today… 2.9 Lifting Shovel
Meccano model for today… 2.8 Garage Crane
This was a fun one with a couple of neat features to make the most of the limited parts.
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