Thanks a bunch for your hard work every week in bringing out the digital copy of the contact magazine. When I served, I was a regular purchaser of these outstanding magazines. Also, it's absolutely fantastic that you're putting up you tube clips for everyone to see your progress on house reno's. In years gone by all we had were photos and black and white slides to remember our loved ones. Now, in the 21st century the digital century we can have more to look at besides just photos. Keep up the good work, cheers.

Ahhhh, drawers and hinges. My Achilles heal. Have you thought about approaching Ozito and or Bunnings for sponsorship,, in this latest episode I noticed how much Ozito stuff you have.

Continues to look good, the end(ish) is nigh. How was Fiji?

Beautiful bit of timber. What did you finish it with? All looking a bit more done than last time, the family all look pleased. Janet likes your tile work too. The thing used for the flattening looked like a “Woodwizz”. You can make your own slab flatter for not a lot of $$ for next time. Have a look on KZbin and you’ll see what I mean.

Another great video, Brian, with good visual variety. You're a clever and creative fella!

Looks solid. How about a vice?

Is the final finish more gooder than you anticipated? Looks fantastic, those finishing bits drive you crazy and take so much time. Would you have done anything differently if you had to start over? What next? There is a next isn’t there.

That’s a great achievement, Brian. Well done. I trust the ‘client’ is impressed!

I watched poetry today, looks great and I admire your skill set. Great viewing.

Well done, Brian. You’re no amateur.

looks great, and far from a simple tiling job. I have been told that those large format tiles are much harder then they look.

What day is Cliff Kicker Training?

Huge! Let there be light. Good job.

I second the motion, that is bloody brilliant, well done you. You should make thrillers, the suspense.

If it can’t track and fire on the move I think it’s pretty useless these days. This isn’t the Somme.

A new site moto - “hey grandad, what are you going to do next”

Great time had by all good to see

Not a fox to be seen and the only winner, the local dry cleaner. PS. Loved some of your camera work.

Ahhh tis lovely weather, loved that first speech. Did a fox have a good time, or did it get away?

I felt that as the pain ran down my arm, down into my nether regions and to my feet. Ouch.

Failure you are not. Even having an ago makes you a hero. I’ve had more than one intense arguments with tilers, a good one is worth their weight in gold.

Remember that the tongue hold position is everything! Something I learned at 500 yards, staring down fig. 11 & fig. 12 targets! Great effort Mr H! All the best to ya!

Very innovative. Have you any more ceiling sheets to do? Rosie did very well too.

Well done that man! 😁👍 It's amazing what can be achieved when you hold your tongue the right way!

Goodonya! Beautiful!

100% wow! Stunning.

You must go to bed completely knackered every day.

Loved your work Thanks, learned lots from the window fitter guys, useful.

My run-in with a concrete grinder involved fixing a self leveling floor pour into my son’s kitchen. When we put the correctly mixed concrete down it looked just like what you showed. By morning the next day it was very solid and dry. I now only buy what I need when I can, I have so much stuff bought “for later” that I don’t realise I had before buying more when I needed it…… Still love your work and tenacity to just do the next bit.

Ну шо, хто тут на ОСІНТера крайній?

Great every time we go and train a country that should have trained there own forces. It ends up sending more of our troops to fight in this proxy war that if not bank rolled by Countries that never gave a crap before when this occurred been over in a week. There not like the good guys. Ukrainianions are known to be behind many vial actions. Like slave trade, selling of from children to women to the filthy rich, with the strong arming of people with drug trade from the old mafia days. I just can’t believe people forget so quick, many just follow the media. The reds are bad push push against Russia. As the industrial complex. Needed a new enemy as after the embarrassing 20 yrs of in the end wasted lives and money. No enemies no good for weapon manufacturers getting their millions a profit without the ever increasing more to the military budget. Yet leave there own people with crap medical if your not rich. Even housing and not mentioning the sudden drops of money to the veterans that have given parts of their bodies to never be able to hold a normal job. Sorry just gets my goat, what else we going to send australian can’t afford???

😂😂😂 it’s all we as men do …..fill holes 😂😂😂😂

Looks like very hard work to me. It’s another of those jobs that you have to keep going with and you know it will look great in the end. When we next see each other, ask me about my experience with a concrete grinding disk in an enclosed space (a house),

Disgusting Australia 🇦🇺 should be staying right out of it 🔥

Great idea with the stormwater. Those tomatoes look very tasty.

Looks pretty good.

Totally worth the struggle. Looks fantastic. I reckon that top isn’t going anywhere with or without brackets. Don’t forget to allowance for timber movement between summer and winter. The solid timber top will expand and contract possibly by 5mm over its width. When you anchor it let a couple of screws on one side be a bit loose to allow it. Also, you may need to loosen the two connector rods as well. Time will tell.

A great achievement, Brian. Even more so because Rosie is clearly pleased.

I award you 1 or more “attaboys”. Great work. Now while watching I was thinking that some lubrication might have helped, I’ve never heard of it but it is Ironbark. I use beeswax on screws so they slide in better on super dense timbers. Even water maybe might work. The surface chipping by the plane was caused by planing against the grain, but Ironbark has an ever changing grain direction. In days of old they used (and still do) a scrubber plane. It is a longish body and has a blade sharpened with an outward curve on the cutting edge. To use it you go across the grain and it scrubs out lots of wood. The long bed helps level the slab. After, you can sand heavily or use a series of smoothing planes. All hard work.

Always on to the next. Every tool used to the max, every muscle used to the max. What did the table finally look like? All the best for 2024, another mystery wrapped up in an enigma.

Impressive effort, Brian. A man of many tools! And a man who’s prepared to have a go to get things done.

Can’t begin to tell you how impressed I am. I have become a firm believer that it’s how you recover that makes all the difference. At a guess I’d suggest your drill bit got too blunt and all it could do was follow the easiest line, which was not straight and level in this case. That’s the love of Ironbark for you. The end will justify the means. Try using some sanded sawdust from the job mixed with some shellac rather than glue. It drys very fast and the shellac is more or less clear so adds nothing to the colour. I could also recommend Wellbond glue from Bunnings. Works and looks like pva but drys completely clear. Again, well done. If your wrist gets sore get it checked. It was a drill doing what yours did that completely wrecked my right wrist years ago.

Nice recovery. Well done.

the drive belt gets easily damaged when you overstrain the machine when planning these wide boards, you should only set the machine to take 1mm off each pass not more, also I think the feeders are also worn, you need to replace them, whenever a board gets stuck inside the machine you must immediately turn the handle to loosen the gap so the feeders' rubber won't worn out by grinding against the wood, there are better cheap compo machines like scheppach HMS1080 but their maximum planning width is 25cm, hope to see the end result soon, merry christmas

Yikes ×12

Brian, the ironbark table is well on its way to becoming your masterpiece. I’m impressed by your skill and dedication to the project. It will, no doubt, be a centrepiece on family occasions for many generations to come.

Wow that Ironbark looks fantastic, wait until you put the finish on it will just melt your heart. I think that thicknesses did an awesome job, I had a gmc model and it would have just resigned on the first cut. I think you’ll be ok for the belt, your local industrial belt supplier should be able to make one for not too much cash. It’s dead easy to sharpen spade bits but you will need to do it often. Looking forward to the finished product. Heavy, hard and consistent slog will pay off in the end.

New lathe? Love the axe turning technique. I thought you were making a vase for Rosie, then a bell, then a mallet, never guessed a gate stop. Well done.

I see the lights were on in the building by the locked door. Sign, sign, I know not of what you speak…..

It came out a lot quicker than it went in, Brian. We done good!