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Blocking tannins with a primer for tropical woods

What is this about blocking tannins with a primer for tropical woods? You can see on my YouTube channel how I restore a garden...

How to assemble an Adirondack chair

Once we have finished making all the pieces of the Adirondack chair, it is time to assemble the chair. And although the plans to...

How to use Adirondack chair woodworking templates

In a previous post we saw how to make the woodworking templates from the Adirondack chair plans. Those plans were on paper at 1:1...

How to make woodworking templates from Adirondack chair plans

A few days ago I bought some plans of an Adirondack chair, which is a really nice and really comfortable garden chair. These typical...

Leonardo Da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge

From children to adults, Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions always catch everyone's attention. Not only because of the thing he intended to achieve in the...

How to apply double protection to an outdoor wooden fence

When we make some outdoor projects with woods such as spruce, very susceptible to fungi and insects attacks and also not very resistant...

Restore the color of teak furniture: oiling teak garden chairs

Many of us have teak furniture in the garden because it possesses two very important qualities for garden furniture: it is very beautiful and...

How to apply anti rust paint to metal railing

Whenever we have a metal railing, or a metallic structure, or some other metal parts of something that has rust, we are always a...

Wood support for climbing garden plants

A few years ago we planted a climbing plant in the garden, specifically a beautiful wisteria. Fortunately this climbing plant does not grow too...

Make a garden hose holder, part 2: the planter

As soon as I had made the structure that will hold the wooden planter on top of the treated wood post, I could start...

Making a garden hose holder, part 1: the support

I always thought that a hose holder to hang the garden hose was something that would be more decorative than useful, since surely after...

4 Jack O’Lantern pumpkins I carved for Halloween

In principle there are 4 Halloween Jack O'Lantern pumpkins, but after I count all the pumpkins I carved, including those of accompaniment, decoration or...

Carving Halloween Jack O’Lantern Pumpkin 2014

As every year I give myself the license to carve a Halloween Jack O'Lantern pumpkin and sneak it in among the DIY videos. Here...

DIY height adjustable Wooden Hurdle for dogs agility. It is also removable in sections

If you are looking for how to make a wooden fence with adjustable height, here are all the posts and corresponding videos, designed for...

Adjusting the groove of the wooden fence and the boards length

When I made this height-adjustable wooden fence for dog jumps, I tried to adjust the measurements of the groove where the tongue-and-groove boards fit...

Using bolts to join the fence parts and finishing it

Once I finished making the side supports of the wooden fence, I could join them at the bottom with a wooden beam and cut...

I make the lateral supports for the wooden fence

In this post, I will join the vertical post to the base to obtain the inverted T of the wooden fence supports. I will...

I put the wheels to the chair made of pallet wood

After making some solid wood wheels, I thought it would be interesting to put these wooden wheels on the chair made from recycled pallet...

Woodworking plans to make the one Pallet Adirondack Lawn Chair

Here you can see the plans for this Adirondack-style garden chair, including the cutting diagram for the pallet wood boards that can be recycled...

Adirondack garden chair made of pallet wood

I suppose one wants to dismantle a pallet because they already have some ideas for pallet wood projects, but in this case, I...

Halloween pumpkin carving 2013. Jack O’Lantern Alien

Halloween, Samhain, the day of carved pumpkin lanterns, is approaching, and for the third year in a row, I'm preparing mine. I admit it's...

DIY wooden planter box made with pallets

To make this pallet wood planter for the garden, I didn't just use pallet wood; I also used a pine board I had in...

DIY tower of pots with flower plants

I wanted an easy way to attach the pots to a post, and this is a really simple method. The wires around the post...

Samhain 2012. Halloween 2012

Between making the table saw and the method for cutting tenons, this video where I carve the pumpkin to make a Samhain lantern (or...

DIY compost bin made with pallets

If you have a garden with grass or lawn, you know that the problem, besides cutting the grass, is what to do with it...