I had been planning to adapt my garage for metalworking for some time already, and finally I got lucky and found a used tabletop. A small fabrication company was selling it and they had used it as a basic welding table already earlier, so it had the four legs welded on already. So that was…
3D model of my garage
I’ve been changing the layout of the workshop around already few times, and to make it easier I decided to model the whole garage on as high details as possible. This way I’m able to test how new tools fit into the space.
Metal yarn holder
My son’s godmother is an amazing crocheter, and always hand makes all birthday and Christmas presents. As Christmas was getting close, I decided that I will hand make something for her as well; namely a metal yarn holder. The plan was to make the base so heavy that it can be placed on the floor…
‘Cold Forged’ banister
Our cellar staircase was missing a bannister so I decided to give a go on building one. I was lacking most tools required for bending metal, so a lot of that work was improvised. The result was well beyond my expectations considering that I had never done this kind of work. Build log:
Sauna dressing room bench with hinges
Ever since I built my new sauna, I ended up sitting on a foldable chair in the dressing room while we were cooling down with my wife. You can guess who was using the nice bench in there… As the dressing room is very small, there is no place for another bench. The only solution…
Wooden sauna curtain
I couldn’t find a good curtain for my sauna, so I decided to build one. Traditionally the curtains are made by crocheting cotton thread, but I decided to do something different. The inspiration came from bead curtains which were popular in the 60’s and 70’s. I needed to find wooden beads without any treatment to…
Traditional Finnish wood-burning sauna
I’m originally from Finland, the promised land of sauna, but I’ve been living abroad for nearly 20 years. I’ve missed the tradition immensely, so I decided to build a proper sauna on my backyard. The project took about 6 months to plan and 2 months to build. The overall budget is unknown to me as…
Flight controller table
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. When our first kid was born, we needed to reallocate the office we had in our appartment to become the kids room. This also meant that I needed to make sure that I can still sit comfortably while I work on…
Tortoise Terrarium
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. I had a companion from the age of seven until far into my adult life; a horsefield tortoise called Ramses. I wanted to make a new terrarium for him which is not the usual square shape.
Mercedes SLK Carputer
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. When you see through the pictures, remember that most of these features were unheard of at the time, even though today these are common in modern cars! This was a very long project which required a lot of planning. At the…