18 September 2024
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As a bassist, turning up to gigs typically involves more than just arriving with my instrument. I’ve typically got an amp, an FX unit and various sundries to cart around, including somewhere to mount the iPad holder for the iPad … Continue reading
4 March 2022
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About a week on from the completion of my new shelving set up and I’m feeling reasonably pleased with how it has settled in. I’ve been making a few more adjustments but it is nice and solid and I’m getting … Continue reading
25 September 2021
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When we bought our house, it came with a couple of large, square beds at the far end. These have been great for growing a variety of veg but the one nearer the house has an apple tree against the … Continue reading
20 July 2021
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For a long time now, I’ve liked to keep the Open Source vector graphics programme Inkscape installed. However, I’d not used it for a while as it was starting to get a bit flaky on my Macbook (possibly a lag … Continue reading
19 April 2021
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I thought the diagonal fence on my workbench router top was a cunning idea. I was even getting excited about how I could use wide marks at the edge to make (scaled down) very precise cuts at the router blade. … Continue reading
16 April 2021
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Rather than doing a lot of woodwork, I’ve actually spent most of the day sitting in front of my computer working on an old version of Sketch-up and planning my design. There were quite a few scribbles and calculations on … Continue reading
17 January 2021
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The wonderful thing about building with cheap materials — like the wood from those pallets I have been taking apart this week — is the freedom to develop a design. Here the task was to create a gate in front … Continue reading
10 January 2019
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I don’t know what the temperature was when I cycled to work this morning but it is the first time recently that I’ve found the tips of my fingers getting unpleasantly cold even with my thicker gloves on. According to … Continue reading
26 December 2018
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One of my presents this year was a fantastic boardgame called Azul. You play the game by collecting (drafting) sets of coloured tiles and thus winning points. It creates lots to think about but also looks beautiful. Furthermore, it feels … Continue reading
4 December 2018
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One from the archives, which I’d marked for blog consideration and then left languishing.