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With the recent demise of New Zealand’s largest magazine publisher, one of our talented Shed writing team suggested that it may be interesting actually to spell out how we make a magazine. It’s not an overly difficult process but it may interest read

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Alongside his hopes for a regular local knife show, Brent supports the creation of a New Zealand knife makers guild. He says people are becoming more discerning and willing to pay higher prices for good craftsmanship. He also believes that substandar

Brent’s workshop would be an Aladdin’s cave to most sheddies. The first thing that greets you is a row of four drill presses in different sizes. Then there’s a hydraulic press, one of two presses, and a beautiful green milling machine. On the other s

If you would like to get your hands on one of Brent Sandow’s knives then you are in luck. Brent has kindly donated our subscription prize for this issue so we have a Sandow kitchen knife to be won by a current or renewing subscriber. See The Shed sub

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In the last column (The Shed Issue No. 91) I recounted building a 10-rater pond yacht during lockdown, using only on-site materials. As we went to press it was code-named KZ Lockdown and unfinished. We finally settled on Spirit of Lockdown, and she’s

They’re a dedicated lot, these steam railway enthusiasts. More often than not, they’re blokes past retirement age who are happy to spend two days or so each week restoring late 19th- and early 20th-century railway carriages, stripping down locomotive

Most of the volunteers are well past retirement age, but there are several younger volunteers and all of them are enthusiastic railway evangelists. The future for Nicholas Trounson-Harris was mapped out when he asked for an ultimate Thomas the Tank E

New Zealand Railways announced the closure of the Fairlie Branch line in 1967. The line had run through Pleasant Point for 93 years and was steam operated all that time, but, like many others throughout the country, it could no longer compete with ro

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