The first shelf I put up with one of these brackets nearly came down on me. The bracket was not the problem. It was the fourth design on this page, glued and screwed, and it was solid. I hung it with a plastic wall plug and an ordinary drywall screw. It held fine for a … Read more
I burned out an angle grinder on this railing. It was a 650W Black+Decker small grinder, clamped to a cutting stand, and I didn’t think about what an angled cut does. A 45-degree cut makes the disc travel through far more metal than a straight cut, and it has to do it 232 times. The … Read more
Scrap marble and granite offcuts into a polished pen holder over seven days. The full build, the four things I would change, and the dust warning nobody gives you.
Ten lap joints for a wooden cross, with a table for choosing between them. Most people want the cross-half lap – here is why, and when the other nine beat it.