Done!

Now it just needs some surface finishing, and perhaps a coat of poly, and it can go back into the door (it's one half of a door latch).

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Slowly cutting a recess to fit a hex head bolt in what turns out to be a rather splintery piece of cypress (note the little chip-out on the bottom right corner). Now I just need to keep it together for a few more mm (depth).

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A most disreputable-looking glue-up for the chair arm I was wrestling with the other day. It features dubious practices like one clamp holding up another clamp, and two clamps clamped against each other to span a gap larger than one clamp's capacity.

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The thing that I'm proudest of in the workshop is this weird cupboard.

The walls of the workshop are made from prefabricated PUF panels (polyurethane foam sandwiched between two thin corrugated sheets of steel, with W-profiled side edges that interlock with each other). Once you cut off an edge, it can no longer interlock, and is therefore effectively useless.

We had some cut-off panels left over, and they form the sides of this cupboard. The material is infuriating to work with. Cutting it releases a cloud of foam particles, and all of the holding strength comes from the very thin sheet steel. (It's not really meant to carry any load, anyway, just to be screwed on to a welded steel framework to make walls.) But I managed to work within its limitations, and build something that carries a considerable weight in a very satisfying way.

Thanks to extensive internal bracing, I can load up the cupboard without worrying (and it's held up all this weight for several months with no ill effects). I'm pleased that I was able to repurpose leftover material that was otherwise unusable.

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"Seven years of work in fifteen minutes", an excellent time-lapse-ish overview video of the restoration of a large sailing boat from Sampson Boat Co:

(Don't miss the keel surprise in there!)

Thanks to @samebchase for the tip.

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This recent video from Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration is a real exercise in patience, as he refinishes an old wooden sports car steering wheel.

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I made an adjustable A1 drafting table for my workshop. It's ugly, but it does work as intended: I can keep it in this position to draw on, and then move it up so that it hangs flat against the wall, which makes it easier to read the plans while executing them.

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