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Apr102024
Transferring a design to wood for pyrography

How to transfer a picture to wood – Pyrography

Pyrography How to guidesBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

How to transfer a picture to wood How to transfer a picture to wood is one of the most asked questions I get! One of the easiest ways to transfer your picture on to wood is by printing out the picture that you want to use. Whether you choose to use a photograph or line…

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Apr292021

Cleaning your Pyrography tips and pens.

The WorkshopBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

How to clean your Pyrography tips and pens Cleaning your Pyrography tips and pens is very important. It will help your wood burning tips to last longer, and be more efficient. Over time you will notice them naturally discolour and create a carbon build up. Unfortunately carbon is not good at conducting heat, which is…

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Feb12021

Skull and Roses Woodworking project

The WorkshopBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

Hey there! In this post I’m going to be talking about how I made this Skull and Roses woodworking project.Some of the mediums I used are still relatively new to me, so I may not have used them in the most efficient way. I just found the best way that worked for me. So if…

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Dec292020

Adjustable Frame Clamp

The WorkshopBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

Introduction We needed a frame clamp that we could use when doing frames on solid pieces. This is our solution and we will be refining the design as we go. All the measurements are for the one we built, for example we used a 20mm thick piece of Aluminium only because we had it in…

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May242020
woodwork jig to cut hexagons

Adjustable Hexagon Jig

The WorkshopBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

We work on quite a few projects that require us to cut multiple accurate hexagons with minimum waste, the first one we made was for a fixed size which worked fine but it was a lot of hassle to change the size when we needed to so we set about creating an adjustable jig for…

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Nov162019
Fixing Pyrography or woodburning mistakes

Fixing Pyrography or Woodburning Mistakes

The Workshop, ToolsBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

Hello! I’m Kez from Spirit & Bear, and we are going to be giving you some tips on fixing your Pyrography or woodburning mistakes. Wood burning is so much fun, but if you new to Pyrography then it can be a little daunting. So here is a list of helpful wood burning tips, that will…

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Sep282019
Load spreaders for woodworking clamps

Making Load spreaders for woodworking clamps

The WorkshopBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

Load spreaders for woodworking clamps: Today I wanted to show you these, we call them Load spreaders and they are super simple to make.The question i can hear you asking ” What do you use them for?” Well…… They are a scrap piece of HDF flooring with a magnet inserted and glued in one side…

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Sep52019

Wood burning for beginners.

The Workshop, Workshop ResourcesBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

Hello! I’m Kez from Spirit & Bear.In this blog post I’m going to run thorough a few of the basics of wood burning for beginners. I get asked lot of questions about what tools to use, and what types of woods are the best for pyrography. I will also share with you how to prepare…

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Aug132019

Hexagon Calculator

Workshop ResourcesBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

This is a great little app for calculating the size of material whe you need to create a hexagon of a particular size, just enter the dimension you know and it will calculate the remainder. This is especially useful for working out material size needed when making multiples to reduce waste. for example:- if we…

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Jun282019
Homemade woodwork bench vise

Woodwork Bench Vise From Scrap

The WorkshopBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

I have needed a vise for woodwork for sometime and having made a new bench I thought it was time to take a look at what I could make without spending too much. this may not be the best of guides as I lost a lot of the pictures that should have been included but…

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May212019
custom wooden drinks coasters

Custom wooden drink coasters

The WorkshopBy KEZ HallidayLeave a comment

Custom Wooden drinks coasters can add a personal touch to any room, but you don’t want just any old coasters, you want the perfect ones for your home! If you looking for drink coasters you’ll want some that are personal to you and your home. Personalise them with any message, names, dates, joke or whatever…

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May132017
Home made T slot

Easy Home made T slots for jigs

The WorkshopBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

Easy Homemade T-Slot for jigs.   I started to make a new small cross cut sled for my table saw the other day and decided to make the t slot directly in the fence rather than buying a aluminium one, with that in mind I decided to write this little article to show people just…

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Jun72016
workshop with window frames fitted

The building of the workshop

The WorkshopBy Phil HallidayLeave a comment

We all have to start somewhere. For the workshop we started as most projects do with a budget you know that amount of money you have to do the job that is always that little bit less than you need, in our case it limited the size of the workshop to 20′ long x 12′…

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