Author: Lieuwe

My girlfriend recycled an old Ikea shelving unit (I think it was a Gorm or something) into this planter. We want to grow peas and beans against this wall because it gets a lot of sun. To protect the wood and make it look a little prettier, we wanted to paint it. So we tried […]

When I was in high school, in 2003, I started a band. The band, called Colligan, started out as a school band but soon grew to be much more, for us in the band at least. We did a lot of cool things together, such as play at a festival in Tirana, Albania, and perform […]

Last week, my brother got a call from an old friend that she had some wood that we could pick up for free. It turned out that she wasn’t kidding. They cut down an oak, a beech and an old horse chestnut on the grounds of this beautiful old villa just south of the city. […]

I’ve been working on a log of oak, on which I will do a blog post soon. The last few days I’ve worked on getting the bark off and getting the outside nice and smooth. I had a couple of restored draw knives to do this but the log is so wide that their handles […]

Update: I found out after some experimenting that this stuff is also great for waterproofing veg-tan leather. I finished this Nexus 5 case with it. In my post on making tablet stands I used hard wax from Clou. The stuff is not very expensive, but not cheap either: 9 euros or so in a German […]

I made a little stand for my Nexus 7 a while back, before I had this blog. My mother recently bought a Nexus 7, so I decided to make another one for her. In this post I will show you how I made this. All measurements are in metric, with an approximate translation to inches […]

A little tea box I made from recycled wood. Most of it is really old cedrela (also called Spanish cedar). It’s a lot like mahogany. The top has an especially nice ribbon figure. The inside is made of lighter wood. I think it’s just younger cedrela. These are from cigar boxes that I took apart. […]