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  • Australian Woodsmith

    Iso Reno

    Jul 29, 2020 4 minutes

    We restricted access to the Australian Woodsmith workshop during the first months of the COVID-19 lockdown.

    That gave me plenty of time to upgrade my garage and turn it into my own personal creative zone (with space for the car when a brooding purple sky threatened hail).

    The design brief was to build a second bench (fitted out with Terry Gordon's wonderful vices), to move most of my tools out of the Australian Woodsmith workshop and to create an uncluttered and inviting creative space to make and mend in.

    The first step was to build a shed for the lawnmower and garden tools. The next step was to build a frame to enclose the

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