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  • I imagine the glue is colour matched.

  • They look similar to some stick on cubes that I had when I was in school, metallic faced, came in sheets and you cut them down the rows or whatever. I think I got them from France in the mid-80’s. Where do you get them from @edmundro?

  • Lol, no, I don’t stick them on one at a time!
    Basically:
    -Laminate mirror with proprietary self-adhesive backing.
    -Fold and slice sheets to strips.
    -Stick it on strip at a time.
    *I’ve missed out a few steps

    The knack is developing the dexterity to actually make it look good.

    The piece is coated with another adhesive(also a company secret) which creates a bond with apparently no upper or lower failure temp but can still be mechanically seperated if required(razor sharp chisel etc)

    It’s not complex but getting the materials to do it correctly to a commercial spec is all but impossible. As a general rule this sort of glass is sold by the ton from China.

  • Mapei don’t just make sweet team strips and colonago paintjobs, they make a full rainbow of grout too ;)


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  • Just an average day in the workshop :)


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  • People on here might know that I build bikes but I do general metalwork also such as this oak coffee table.


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  • closeups of those welds please

    looks ace

  • Ah ho, new knowledge gained.

  • Made a leather strop from an old phone slip case. Got carried away with testing but suffice to say my chisels and plane have never been sharper.


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  • Is that what you do for a living? If so, do you have website?

  • 3 tins of beer, sharp things and body shaving....I think that's on Page 346 of Recipes for Disaster

  • To be fair, two are from a while ago and I hadn't bothered tidying up.

    Do you need your bikini line done?

  • Progress on the new workbench. Four more boards to go on the left to make up the main fore section of the work top. Gluing up in pre-glued pairs as I don't trust myself with one big glue up.


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  • Have a 10.5" quick release vice coming which will have 3/4" Baltic birch ply jaw faces. Also has a pop-up dog on the moving jaw so there will be a line of dog holes leading away from the vice and also along the front edge of the bench. Hankering after some forged holdfasts.

  • Will hopefully be better than the shitty 3/4" ply work top I currently have that's fixed to the wall of the shed so everything falls off the shelves when you try and doing anything strenuous.

  • Ha, that’s my issue too!

  • Threw together the base for the new bench at lunch. Will add some diagonal support at the back, once I've decided which side the back is, to help prevent against racking.

    Beefy. Should help with straightening out the giant wooden Pringle I made by glueing PAR 2x4s without having a large flat surface available (that I'm willing to get glue on).


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  • are those 'double Hs' mortice and tenon joined? they look smart

  • No, just 6" screws. Again, I chickened out of any actual joinery for fear of scrapping the posts and having to wait another two weeks. Did spend a bit more time than usual squaring up the mitre saw so the butt joint would be square.

    Turns out that even gluing up PAR timber can give you a very heavy Pringle. One binliner full of shavings later and the top is a bit more flat. Although still not perfect.


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  • Flattening with a No. 4 is hard work. I would have killed for a No. 7 yesterday.

  • Need longer carriage bolts for the vice and to make the plywood jaws. But nearly done.


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  • Does anyone have experience with selling craft items on Etsy or a similar platform? How did you find it? Are there any pitfalls / things I should look out for?

    I'm stuck at home looking after my kids and going slightly potty. In all likelihood I will be looking after my kids for the duration of the summer holidays so I'm looking at ways that can do some work in the evenings and weekends to prevent myself going totally mad.

    I was thinking along the lines of smallish wooden items, chopping boards, coat racks, picture frames that kind of thing. All modern and all from my own design maybe even combine some stuff with my blacksmithing hobby I don't know yet.

    Anyway that enough of my ramblings I'd be massively appreciative of any pointers I can get.

  • I've sold on there for about a year or so. I put very little effort into marketing myself on there, so volumes are super low (one every few months), which I am fine about at the moment. Essentially I am waiting for people to find me.

    I found I got a lot of interest via Twitter using appropriate #hashtags. But I dont really post on there any more.

    The admin side of Etsy seems smooth, no issues with payments, etc.

    You could try Folksy.com

    Selling on here works quite well.

  • I've sold a few things on there, I was making these lamps, no effort to advertise, got daily likes of the thing I had available, sales here and there. pretty easy but the fees where quite substantial. so much so there was no benefit to selling on etsy so I just put them on eBay and saved a few quid.

    if you were trying to build an online shop and reputation it would probably be worth using. there were just too many small fees and costs for my liking that added up to a hefty chunk. I think it was something like 20% of your sale price.

  • Looking at the last 12 months I had:

    Sales £152.47
    Fees/Tax £16.69

    So, 11%.

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