Learn Woodwork Group A six week wood working course Starting Tuesday 15th February 2022 Time: 1:00pm until 2:30pm Location: 332 Linwood Ave, Linwood, Chch. Run By: Shane Hollis of Linwood Resource Centre / Linwood Men’s Shed This course is designed to allow people to: Learn how to use basic wood working tools Learn […]
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Valentines Day 2019
Materials: 140mm x 18mm pine (can be other size) PVA / Hot glue Polyurethane Gear: Coping saw Glue gun for hot glue Sand paper Hand saw Pencil Clamps or vice Time: 60 minutes Plans: PDF Instructions Word Instructions Notes: When cutting out the shapes, make sure there is a lot of support otherwise the wood […]
A Whale Of An Organiser
Materials: Dressed 100 x 50 pine. (90 x 42 or 90 x 45) Polyurethane (optional) Gear: Sand paper (180 grit ) Files (square and round) Coping Saws Felt Pen / Pencil 10mm drill bit and drill Clamps / vice. Hand saws Ruler Time: 60 – 90 minutes Plans: Downloadable Instructions (DocX) Traceable Plan Sketchup File […]
Gumboot Stand / Shoe Rack
This boot holder / shoe rack is a quick and easy project – great for doing with the ankle biters or grand kids. It can be made with left over 2 x 4 (50×100 to you modern folks), pallet wood or builders scrap. The dowel is harder to get but around $10-15 will get you […]
Simple Bird Feeder From Fence Paling
The following bird feeder is simple to make, requires very few tools and costs very little. We adapted some ideas we had seen and turned out this feeder as part of Dementia Canterbury’s twice monthly wood working group who meets at Bunnings Shirley. Materials: Fence Paling Wood – 150mm wide x 400mm long. Either 19mm […]
How Many Things Can You Make From A Fence Paling?
We love fence palings. Fence palings rock. So many of the jobs we do involve fence palings: Tool Boxes; Raised Gardens; Planter Boxes, Shoe Scrapers, Kindling / Wood Boxes and of course – fences. Some of the reasons we use fence palings are: Easy to get: We know we can get them from Bunnings, Mitre […]
H Is For Hazard – The Issues When Working With Treated Wood
We often get asked to make raised gardens (link) Wooden fence palings are our goto wood of choice. The problem with this is that they are H3.2 treated. H stands for hazardous (arsenic in this case) and that’s not something you would want in your veges. THe most common type of treatment is known as […]
Instructions for Making Raised Gardens From Fence Palings
One of the more common jobs the LMS gets involved in is making raised wooden garden beds from fence palings. Normally the requested work doesn’t arrive with the instruction to use fence palings, but after reviewing options it’s normally decided that fence palings are the best and most economical option. Feel free to read why […]
New Brighton Imagination Station – Pop Up Seats
The Job The Imagination Station (and Tim from Methodist Mission and Bunnings Shirley ) approached us to hlep them build some seats / boxes for a Pop Up event being held in New Brighton. Basically they were looking for some bench seats that could flip into their backs and become boxes to hold lego. with […]
Linwood Primary Dodge Ball Pit
Bunnings Riccarton approached us to help with one of their community projects – building an Israeli / Gaga Dodgeball pit. They would provide the wood and provide some expert hands for installation if we could build the pit and get it ready fro them. Of course we said yes. The results of our efforts are […]