Other woodworking

Normally, I buy old, neglected tools and refurbish them. It’s cheap, and it makes me feel like I saved something from going to waste, or even like I conserved a piece of history. Conserving a piece of history can take a lot of elbow grease, though. I don’t use power tools to grind or sand, […]

I bought this stanley #66 beading scraper a while back. It only cost me a couple of euro’s but it was missing its fence and only had one scraper blade included. Otherwise, it was in great shape. I haven’t been able to date the thing exactly, but I read that it was probably made somewhere […]

I’ve been working leather for a while now, mainly making sheathes and cases for my tools. They were intended to be functional, not pretty. Recently I’ve been trying to make some prettier things out of leather too, such as a case for my Nexus 7. To make clean lines and sow neatly and cleanly, I […]

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. […]

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 […]