I think this counts as DIY, so finished making loads more display stands for my wife’s jewellery / hair accessories / crafts business. Her first one of the new year is next weekend, so finishing touches for whole new display. Organic wood with black are the theme for this years display settings.
Yeah it is, maybe missed a comma in there. I guess technically, MDF or even ply is engineered wood but the theme of the display is more organic than the prior displays I made which had more engineered wood.
That all depends on which definition of 'organic' is flavour of the month. = A natural product, of course = A product which hasn't been treated, it can be treated or untreated = A crop / resource that has been grown without pesticides and or fertiliser, again it depends on where it comes from, what it's intended purpose is and how it was grown And that's before you go down the rabbit hole of engineered lumber and genetically modified trees
Organic? Maybe, but there's no way that wood is free range. That's battery wood if ever saw* any. *Yeah, I went there.
It feels like I should be the guy adding stuff here. I just patched the second hairline crack in my water main. -Two hours of digging for ten minutes of patching. There was a layer of bricks to deter roots, (that failed.) Then I found the old AC foundation. The whole space was tree roots and remains of the old plumbing, so I was forced to go into Archeologist mode every time I hit PVC trash. This was also to get rid of a hackjob splice to the now removed water softener. The lines to that were on the surface, so it's no shock I had freeze damage. The best part is I'm about to tear this all out again and knock out some brick. You can see the pipe in the wall is wet and rusty. I've gotten a lot of practice on brickwork, though. You can see the entire left side has already been replaced. The salt from the water softener dissolved the old brick.
What on earth is that seemingly pointless right-hand bend doing? Why not just go straight up to the wall joint?
Started trying to do some bits and bobs in the garage and I've managed to put together a couple of bits recently. Started with a desk shelf: Tried a plenter to fit an existing plastic planter which could be removed etc: Then some kind of storage/shelving thingy for the garage (tried some mitre joints and routed (using a circular saw) channels for a shelf): Currently a work in progress, a kind of little tea storage/shelf thingy that I just haven't decided how I want to finish it, what back to do, how to mount etc so it's still sat as a pile of pieces at the moment Most recently I made a storage box for the garden (not 100% finished but almost and certainly usable) and an initial storage crate to go inside said box: All of this has made me realise that sanding is a) bad b) something I don't spend enough time doing I think c) harder than needed due to only having cheap sandpaper/a cheap detail sander So I was wondering, is it worth getting something a little 'nicer'? Having got a milwuakee drill/driver set (for better or worse as having serious brushed/brushless regrets even now ) does grabbing their random orbital make sense? Body only is around £80 which seems ok but thought I'd ask to see if people have had good/bad experiences with any sanders in particular, my understanding is a random orbital is probably a good go to as a general covers most bases sander.Or should I just get better at sanding/get over it.
I have three sanders and my orbital gets used the most by far and is really good. My palm sander is good for getting into corners but mine but is mains powered and it's cordless counter part couldn't sand a wart off of a wet frog so that's was a waste of money (all parkside)
I have a Bosch Power4All cordless sander, which works well but, I've never tried sanding wet frogs with it...
@ModSquid - That's something you do when you can't flex the pipe enough to get a straight connection on. -Also I was upside down behind an AC unit huffing glue.. in the dark.
Yeah the cheap lack and decker mouse sander we've got obviously isn't particularly powerful, but also is probably going to encourage bad habits if I keep trying to use it for everything. ROS definitely seems like the way to go, having done a bit more reading I'm definitely looking towards a corded sander, going to have a dust hose anyway so no real advantage to being cordless and apparently they can lack power and eat batteries for breakfast Couple of ones I've seen recommended: On the slightly cheaper side (and smaller) Dewalt DWE6423 125mm ~£80 Or jumping up a bit in price/quality(?)/size: Metabo SXE450 150mm ~£130 Makita BO6030 152mm ~£130 Could risk a clone of one of the fancy ones (mirka deros/festool 150/5), bunch of companies seem to be making them, can get theom from aliexpress for even less but if wanting now/in the UK I know Sealey did one but that's gone up in price to over £200, I think there's a PioneerWorks one for £170 available now. As you can see it's a very slippery slope It'll be used for both trying to neaten up outdoor stuff to avoid splinters etc (have been using some excess fencing material to make a couple of bits for example) as well as hopefully in the future some slightly nicer bits. With my drill/driver I kind of went "buy once cry once" (although I was too impatient to wait for the brushless version to be in stock again and so saved a bit of money for a bit of extra crying), but sander I'm not sure, since I feel some of the mid priced ones are going to already be hitting diminishing returns. At the moment leaning towards the dewalt, but not sure on the 125 vs 150 if wanting to use it for rougher stuff as well will it struggle? Also intend on picking up some decent quality sandpaper for it. Edit: Could also just try a cheap orbital, just because our current cheap sander is seemingly terrible doesn't mean a cheap orbital would be I guess. But whilst looking at tools ended up falling down a bit of a rabbit hole and thought of what other stuff I might want to spend money on as well as/instead of (the money for the monitor for my PC will be taking the hit I think!) and remembered thinking a router could help make projects just a little nicer and had a quick look at the katsu trim router which is often well spoken of and found this site: https://www.aimtools.co.uk/collections/routers/products/101748 Also got some other bits like the plunge mount/bit and brushing sets etc so can see myself spending ~£100 to get a router setup, but will have to get it shipped elsewhere as my post code has a cost of £25 vs £4!
Anyone bought any of this foam that you can cut shapes in to tidy up tool storage, it all seems quite pricey but I'd like to do it for one small section of my tool storage cabinet (Ikea MDF filing cabinet bought cheap off of market place)
