What are you working on currently?

Making this coffee table from white oak. Source material is rough sawn 1x6 boards, and it is pretty rough in places! Handtools only for me at the moment, so it's slow going dimensioning everything, but it's coming out ok so far.

Just finished lining the shed with OSB, painting it and fitting LED T8 lights. Have to finish wiring it up still for sockets and the consumer unit and the power line
back to the house (not on a seperate circuit, the biggest draw it's ever going to see is a router). Need to paint the outside as well.






Almost done with building my workbench (which has dragged on thanks to weather and other things eating up spare time). All joints cut, just making drawbore
pegs at the moment. Hoping to get it into the shed before the weather closes in for winter.







And just finished knocking together a small sharpening station with diamond plates.

built a book/tv case and some built in units. the bit in the corner will eventually be a seat with more book shelves over it, similar to the one over the telly

at the moment it houses a lot of toys !

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Just finished as cheval mirror with jewelry storage, must have been at it over a month but got there in the end,

She's happy, i'm happy

Happy wife ... happy life.
Looks tasty nice work

That looks very good and very solid. Was it necessary to glue it or could the drawbores have been sufficient? I've a workbench in the pipeline but I want it to be able to be disassembled if ever I need to move it. I'm not sure if it's practical for a workbench though.

Just finished a very cheesy red 'love shelf' with back-lit LEDs, it is similar to this:

Very nice^^^ We bit the bullet this summer and painted our grey cinder block wall, took forever but made a huge difference

Found that if I tried to plane on the bench in its current location (up against the side wall of the shed), I'd run the #7 straight into the back wall of the shed. Way too close. $DAYJOB gives time off in lieu if you get called out-of-hours when on call and I got called at 0300 one day last week for three hours work, and then after work that day, got called again at 2300 for more work, and there was some time on the weekend too, so I get today off.
So, out to shed, pull everything out including spare tyres (don't ask) and a tumble drier (don't ask), moved the bench against the back wall so it had two feet between either end and the side walls. Knocked up a quick shelf for under the bench, and finished the last two panels of soundproofing (echo absorbers? still don't have a word for it) and moved everything back into the shed.



I really need to build that 8x4x2' shed for the lawnmower and patio furniture and garden tools and stuff, just to get more room in the shed for proper stuff.

Then I got the 8' boards that weren't fitting in the shed properly and just roughly broke them down (these are the ash, walnut and poplar boards for the sidecar cot project I'm trying to get done for xmas).







15 minutes work, stretched to an hour by sitting staring at the plans in my notebook trying to figure out how long I needed the rough-cut planks to be to not pineapple my design irreparably. I need to learn to work faster
But at least it's all tucked away in the shed relatively tidily now, and I can now work in there even when it's raining (instead of having to stack 8' boards outside in the rain which I didn't want to do really).
Need to fit the new stronger hinges and hasp on the door now (the ones there now wouldn't give me a lot of confidence about keeping opportunistic burglars out) and then I can start moving tools from boxes in the kitchen into the shed and getting on with things.

Friend gave me a block of wood so turned this yesterday. Not sure of the species? Anyone familiar.