There is a really quick and easy way to make French Cleats... this is not it. However, it did give me an excuse to use a piece of kit that had been sitting untouched since I got it, the tilt base for my router. I recycle the old router table inset to make the new base and make an example cleat for my blower.
Project 1: Workshop Pegboard - On today's penultimate adventure into the world of pegboard production, we learn how not glue up a frame up and then how to bodge the result and call it a "Feature" instead of a feck-up.
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This week I'll be staining wood for a client for the first time and have read that without sealing the wood first, you can get blotchy and uneven results. To counter this I've invested in some Feast Watson Grain Filling Sanding Sealer from Bunnings and decided to put it through its paces on a few different hard and soft woods to see what sort of results I get and if it is worth the money. As a cheeky hack I also decided to test the sealing abilities of PVA glue as a cheaper alternative.
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Who says you can't use a stud finder tool on a brick wall?!
My friends at @CarbatecTheHomeOfWoodworking were kind enough to send me out the new Kreg Magnetic Stud Finder with Laser-Mark from the @KregToolCompany to play with this week and it has come in handy almost instantly... although in the slightly unorthodox manner of hanging a bracket on a brick wall ?
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With the wooden frame built it is time to mount it to the concrete ceiling of the garage. Damn, that was an effort! I needed to correct a few, umm, miscalculations, to get the door opening again before securing the cladding and making it pretty.
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Tempus Fugit! It's October 2nd so that means it's time for a long and chatty viewing, recapping what I got up to the past 12 months, celebrating 3 years on YouTube and looking forward to what comes next.
As usual, I'll conclude my yearly wrap up with a workshop tour to see what has changed in the past 12 months You can skip to the tour using these timestamps. Thanks to everyone for the massive support this community gives and all those who have helped me build my skills and channel this year.
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One of the very first things I made for the workshop was a poor man's plywood circular saw guide, and it served me well for nearly 2 years. This Kreg Straight Edge Guide stands alongside the Kreg Accu-Cut as a natural progression for those looking to step up. One of its key advantages is not only can you use it with your circular saw, but it'll also help guide the router or even a jigsaw.
In this video, I will unbox, go through the setup and how to assemble and calibrate the Straight Edge Guide in detail for those who don't want to read the instructions. It is not a review per se, but I'll give my first impressions of it too.
Mine is the normal version 1.2m or 4-foot model, meaning it can cross-cut a full sheet of plywood, MDF, melamine or other similar sheet goods. The XL version is twice as long as the regular one and can rip-cut the full 2.4m or 8 feet.
In the future, I'll review it properly and compare it to the Kreg Rip-Cut and the Kreg Accu-Cut so you can see the differences between them.
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The wooden inset for the router table wasn't cutting it (squarely!) I decided to replace the base with a perspex one to help straighten the blade and in a dramatic change of fortunes actually succeed the first time!
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More #Handyman work at Kirribilli, this time repainting the anti-slip edge on a long flight of paved steps. I decided to try out the Dulux Concrete and Paver Heavy Duty Coating System so I will provide a quick review of my first impressions of that product as well as how I masked up the stairs and applied paving paint. If I can I'll follow up to see how it holds up after a year later on down the track. I would have preferred to use the Step 2 Primer as well but for cost considerations, we went straight to the top coat.
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@CarbatecTheHomeOfWoodworking sent me this cool-looking jig from Kreg that helps you get consistent corner profiles on your work. I had a few little issues with it, but if you are cutting a lot of corners it is certainly much faster than marking them all out and heading to the sander. Here are my first impressions and review.
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