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Wooden drinks cabinet for fireplace niche
This ingenious wooden drinks cabinet makes a feature of a hole in a wall left by an old electric heater. The project I built this mini bar for a friend. The electric heater niche was empty, and it seemed like a great idea. The body is 19mm structural plywood, sanded and finished with wipe-on polyurethane. The face frame…
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Memorabilia display stand
This display stand was made using Spotted Gum decking board offcuts and is a great way to store and display meaningful pieces. The project I built this memorabilia stand to display my late father's boxing gloves. This was a sentimental project for me. I've kept these gloves for more than 30 years and finally they have…
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Kitchen cabinet inset drawers unit for spices
When I got tired of having various size spice jars piling up in the kitchen cabinet, I decide to make this drawer unit which sits inside of the cabinet. The body is white melamine board, edge banded with white pvc edge band. Drawers made of 12mm structured ply and painted with Rustoleum x2 white spray paint (2 coats). Soft…
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Laundry room cabinetry - another project done!
Hi guys, Built this for a friend - just few cabinets for laundry room, with added shelves for the whole length of the wall. Biggest challenge was the tall cabinet, where the back corner had to be cut in quite an aggressive angle... Overall, the material was melamine 16mm, obviously edge banded (damn I hate that job!!! 😂).…
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Mini bar for a fireplace niche
A mini bar I have built for a friend... The electric heater niche was empty, and it seemed like a great idea. The body is 19mm structural plywood, sanded and finished with wipe on polyurethane. Face frame and the doors are made of some recycled pacific maple I had laying around the shop, finished with hardwax oil.…
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Very simple jewellery box - yet another offcuts project
Hi guys, Sharing with you another small project I've built when I had too much small offcuts laying around... We all know this situation, when we have these thin strips of plywood left, and the only place they go is the fireplace.... But a little glue, and then decent sanding and finish will end up in this box lid! Sides -…
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Memorabilia display stand
Memorabilia stand to display the boxing gloves of my late father... Very sentimental project for me - I've kept these gloves for over 30 years and finally they have found their place. The box is made of spotted gum - decking board offcuts, resawn and planed, finished with wipe-on polyurethane. All the joins are mitered,…
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Very simple speaker stand - another shop offcuts reuse project
This is very simple speaker stand - so simple I can't even call it a project 🙂 Had some pine DAR left from other project, some pacific maple offcuts ... So few cuts on my mitre saw, 8 screws, some glue and hardwax oil to finish.
