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In late April, the city of Ghent, Belgium, hosted the annual Ghent Maker Fair (makerfairegent.be/nieuws), an exhibition dedicated to all the crazy inventions of makers in Belgium. On the fair’s opening night of 30 April, the Belgian Power Tool Drag R

You know how it went. You started your working life in your teens, working 9–5 Monday to Friday in a job that ticked a few boxes – such as an income; if you were very lucky, it was a job that you really wanted and enjoyed. Then that wonderful creatio

As shed sizes go, Gary Norton’s is a megastore. It needs to be, because, despite the square footage, space is at a premium, crammed as it is with “a bit of everything” and no end of enterprises in various states of progress. There is a saying about t

Hi guys, On page 42 of the article Kiwi Ingenuity in The Shed Issue No. 107, there was an interesting photo that I think would be worth expanding on with a separate How I Did It article: the Honda motor hidden in the stern! A simple and cheap motor i

Did you know that NZ has lost hundreds of retail outlets over the past 10 years and there are now many less places to buy magazines? With less places stocking magazines, it makes them harder for you to locate a copy of your favourite magazine. Subscr

It’s easy to have a dream for a new lifestyle; it’s a little harder to marry it to reality and actually generate income while enjoying it and staying loyal to your original concept. My wife and I had a dream of selling handcrafted furniture. After co

Panel fixing has just been made a whole lot easier with the Button-fix system, distributed by Hi-Q Components. Designed and manufactured in the UK, the simple but extremely robust system offers five main types of button-fix connectors. It’s a cinch t

In part five of this series, we learnt about lofting. Sweeping is kind of like lofting, but it offers the ability to go around corners – in fact, just about any path you would like to stretch a shape out along. To begin with, we will have a play abou

When it came time to upgrade my son’s grass racing kart, I had two options: spend some money and buy him something already race proven, maybe making some minor adjustments so that it suited his driving position, or start with a fresh frame and build

Many sheds are not lined, and for most this is not an issue. Given that my neighbours are reasonably close, and I live in a place with noticeably very hot summers, I looked at lining and insulating my shed as part of the project. I also knew that if

Readers may recall that, back in late 2020, I was asked to help clear a few trees that had been felled next door. These were 80-year-old macrocarpa trees destined for firewood. However, several were far too good for firewood and we struck a deal to h

In the Tales for Makers chronicles, a legend tells that Ray encountered a strange building for worship during one of his adventures – not a temple but something undoubtedly connected to the spirituality of the world he was exploring. It was a majesti

Our cover story this issue is on the remarkable Imp. The car first came out as a Hillman in the 1950s and, as with many cars of that British motoring era, it also morphed into many other versions over the following years. PLUS: A 1972 Mazda RX-2 that

In two weeks, I’ve attended three gatherings – not that I had to leave home for the second one. They’ve made me think deep, long, and hard about community, friends, support, life, and priorities. So I told her I was moving out to the shed – just kidd

The original version of our house was tiny – only slightly larger than the minimum size allowed in the city plan – so it wasn’t especially difficult to heat, despite not having double-glazed windows (a major mistake) and having cathedral ceilings. Wh

In general, because almost all of the heat arriving from the sun is absorbed by the ground, and the air in our atmosphere gets most of its heat from the ground, the air gets colder as you get further away from the Earth’s surface. This means that the

The Woodsman Serene log burner that I purchased was manufactured by WH Harris. I contacted the company and was invited to visit its factory in central Christchurch. I was conducted around the large manufacturing area by Richard Harris, great-grandson

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markseek@rocketmail.com Today’s appreciating classic motorcycles were once commonplace, often parked on the kerbside outside office blocks or found leaning against grubby factory walls. These time machines are now highly prized, polished, and ridden

The Canterbury branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (VCC) held its first public swap meet on the weekend of 8–9 September 1976, at its site at McLeans Island in Christchurch. The meet proved to be such an overwhelming success that it has bee

Featuring 18 of the best projects from the last 10 years, The Best of The Shed includes all of our most popular projects. With step-by-step instructions, the 176-page book will take you through a variety of projects, including a pizza oven, a trailer

Many of us can recall schooldays when a trip to the local hobby shop with our hard-earned pocket money rattling in our pockets meant the beginning of hours of work on a kitset model aeroplane or car – sanding, gluing, and painting our favourite model

Sheds and their members decide the projects to undertake. However most sheds throughout New Zealand take on some community projects, examples include repairing toy library stock, building playgrounds for early learning centres, repairing old bikes fo

So, our cousins across the ditch have decided that New Zealanders living in Australia can again become Australians and maybe participate in their economy as equals instead of being second-class citizens. At present, New Zealanders who arrived after 2