Building a great deck for typical Kiwi indoor-outdoor living is on every home-owner's list at some point. The deck we are building here is a fairly normal slatted timber deck less than one metre high. This article is an overview of general steps in building a deck and is intended as a broad illust...
In creating a fully automated target, with spring-back target buttons controlled by microprocessors, I was able to compare the workings of Arduino and PICAXE. Arduino and PICAXE are two very different devices—like comparing a revolver and a shotgun. There are smaller Arduinos and bigger PICAXE...
When designing a house, first build your giant shed where you can make joinery for the house-to-be. That was the thought of Julian Pirie. But he was to take a special route—he decided to model his barn-like “shed” on old-style English oak barns, typically housing Aston Martins in magazines p...
Without knowing electronics, it’s easy to tackle this small robot which demonstrates how a machine can be programmed to back off obstacles it hits. Mark Beckett helped to construct his daughter Hayley’s easy-to-make “HaloBOT” which is controlled by PICAXE. You can follow the building proce...
Restoring old motorbikes and cars is Dad’s passion. The garage is home to four of Dad’s prize beauties all lovingly semi-restored in various stages of TTI (Time Till Ignition). The projects in question are two cars: 1956 Wolseley 6/90 Series 1 and 1935 Hudson de Lux 8 (side-valve, straight-eig...
This project to make a stool was developed as a way of introducing students to a number of basic wood-bending and shaping techniques, whilst also giving experience in several useful applications of the router. The stool consists of two legs in the form of continuous steam-bent hoops or arches, whi...
|
Advanced Search |
|
| Lost Password? | |
| Forgot your username? | |
| No account yet? Register | |
|
|
|
| Show Cart | |
|
Your Cart is currently empty.
|
June/July 09
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There is something about a well bound book that speaks of quality, longevity and history. In this article we show you how to bind your own books, a satisfying project that could become a true heirloom passed from generation to generation. Liz Constable a book artist guides you through the intricacies and introduces you to the secrets of book binding.
Sharpening and refurbishing a saw blade involves many steps. When the saw blades arrive for sharpening or maintenance they are carefully inspected for damage, general condition and wear. We count the broken teeth, note any bent teeth and check the size of the remaining tips for the amount of tungsten carbide and cutting life that remains in them. We then make a decision to sharpen or replace the blade depending on the estimated cost of repair.
Auckland inventor Gray Shepherd talks ninety-to-the-dozen in defence of his revolutionary diesel engine—one in which the pistons are fixed and the rotating cylinder sleeve provides the torque.
The classic New Zealand five-bar farm gate is not too difficult to make on site when you need a new one. I had to replace one on my property because the donkey ate some of the old gate. When the animals in the paddock get bored they can take to chewing the gates and even though the timber is tanalised it apparently doesn’t harm them.
Why a cabinetmaker's bench? Since the founding of the Centre for Fine Woodworking, we have built benches especially to meet our needs. The bench is fundamental in its role within any workshop and we feel the higher the quality the bench is, the more care will be taken in its use. Consequently this will reflect in the work being carried out.
To make a tipping trailer, I decided to reproduce the trailer built by Tony Cullen in the first issue of The Shed magazine. This is an excellent, 1800 mm x 1200 mm (6 x 4 domestic) general-purpose, single-axle trailer and certainly within the realms of any home engineer with welding skills. I would then add some hydraulics and, by the miracles of modern science, I would have a tipping trailer.