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Old Tools and How They Can Change the World

5:33

The Crispy Bakelite Clock Part 1

21:19

Another Aerial Adventure with my Mum

5:40

Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 2 A Proper Toy

23:03

Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 1 Ideas and Prototypes

15:49

You Know the Drill...

19:30

The Crispy Clock Part 2 The Long Journey Home

I think I've heightened the tension enough - here's the exciting conclusion to the restoration of this old Bakelite clock.
It'll take me a while to get another video out to you as the Nice Lady ex-of the Hardware Store and I are still recovering from the COVID and, as we understand it, it takes quite a while. Do let me know in the comments if you have any experience or tips for accelerating recovery. Until then I hope you'll be patient; I promise to be back when I can, I've plenty of good stuff simmering in the workshop.
'Til then and as always, God's greatest blessings and thanks so much for watching.

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Old Tools and How They Can Change the World

5:33

Old Tools and How They Can Change the World

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I made this little vid a few months ago and mean to include some pictures of the Methodist Container Ministry warehouse where they temporarily store and sort out all the donations before sending them to different places in developing countries. I'm posting now after my pal Kev at Kev's Can Cave had something similar about what to do with old but perfectly serviceable tools. For example, I inher...

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The Crispy Bakelite Clock Part 1

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This never was My Grandfather's Clock but it's certainly old enough to be - between seventy and eighty years old we reckon. I'd left it lying about for years and years meaning to repair a slight bit of damage and give it a bit of a clean up but carelessness on my part made this into a much longer and involved project, as you'll see. It's quite long but I think you'll enjoy it. Get yourself a cu...

5:40

Another Aerial Adventure with my Mum

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I know it's ungallant to tell the world but all these escalating thrills and adventures are to celebrate my Mum's recent eightieth birthday. I thought you were supposed to slow down as you got older but my Mum has been accelerating with an extraordinary and, for me, a heart-stopping enthusiasm. I shudder to think what she'll be like by the time she's ninety. Thanks for watching and more worksho...

Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 2 A Proper Toy

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Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 2 A Proper Toy

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The footage I take while pottering in the workshop usually has to wait a while before I get round to editing but this must have been an especially long wait - not only can you see that I was making these Christmas presents in weather warm enough to work in shirtsleeves, but that my wee workshop pal Pie appears alive and well during the course of events. I apologise in advance that some of the t...

Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 1 Ideas and Prototypes

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Bits and Pieces Automaton Toy Part 1 Ideas and Prototypes

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A while back I made a Tea Break Blether... th-cam.com/video/l7okKwULxJ8/w-d-xo.html ...with a bit at the start which was intended as a sort of teaser. Needless to say, I didn't get around to making good on the tease. Until now. I've always been an admirer of automaton toys and when my friend Kev at Kev's Can Cave... www.youtube.com/@Kevscancave ...reminded me that I'd even made a few, I realise...

19:30

You Know the Drill...

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...when something breaks, fix it. They tell me that, what with Wintery weather and the post-Christmas bills coming in, the last week of January is the worst week of the year. Of course once this week's over the year only gets better. Right? In the meantime perhaps watching me make the best of a very old piece of workshop equipment will cheer us up and remind us that there's no such thing as a l...

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Tea Time Blether Christmas 2023

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As promised in the video, here's the link that explains the toy with the wing-walking lady and the number eighty... th-cam.com/video/Vb8i3y_mnTM/w-d-xo.html To my astonishment, the previous video, A Little Aeroplane, has done terrifically well. In three or four days it has garnered over a thousand views. I know this is nothing to most channels but it's nearly ten times the number that my vids u...

Kathy's Lighthouse (with a cameo appearance by Pie)

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Kathy's Lighthouse (with a cameo appearance by Pie)

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The weather here is dreadfully wet and windy and if it's like that where you are, well perhaps this wee vid made in June with some lovely evening sunshine will cheer us both up. This video is affectionately dedicated to Pie who, after nearly seventeen years as a most efficient Pest Control Officer, went to that Big Cat Home in the Sky this morning. Happy hunting little friend.

A Tea Break Blether Special - Adventures and Excuses!

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A Tea Break Blether Special - Adventures and Excuses!

มุมมอง 133ปีที่แล้ว

I apologise for having been a bit slow in posting the chapters of my Four String Banjo Saga but after you've seen this I think you will agree that I've got pretty good excuse for having been distracted from the normal course of events lately. By the way, I said we were at Zip World in North Wales 'last week'; I've been rather slow posting this too so it's actually about three weeks ago by now. ...

The Four String Banjo Saga - Chapter 3: Making the Fretboard

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The Four String Banjo Saga - Chapter 3: Making the Fretboard

มุมมอง 130ปีที่แล้ว

My sincere apologies for making you wait so long for this episode - you wouldn't believe what's been distracting me in the last few months. Maybe I'll make a short Tea Break Blether to tell you later this year. In the meantime here's the fretboard for my four string banjo in the making. It's been such a long time since I edited this, let alone put the workshop time in, so this will be as much a...

The Four String Banjo Saga - Chapter 2: The Proper Neck

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The Four String Banjo Saga - Chapter 2: The Proper Neck

มุมมอง 159ปีที่แล้ว

More stuff about my apparently never-ending attempt to resurrect an old cheapie banjo from the dusty catacomb to which I condemned it years ago. In this episode I make the neck assembly. In fact the final iteration at the end of this vid was supposed to be just the second prototype but it took me so long to get my big butt in gear I decided that this one would have to do. For the moment anyway....

A Gift From A Chum - Yet Another Tea Break Blether Supplementary

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A Gift From A Chum - Yet Another Tea Break Blether Supplementary

มุมมอง 925ปีที่แล้ว

You know how you were waiting ages for a Tea Break Blether and then three came at once? Well, here's another one, this time autonumerical in content. A big thank you to Tom Peterson... www.youtube.com/@UCdN8U7cSZyfdDd8epf-zU0g ...be sure to have a look at his channel. God's blessings on you and thanks so much for your support.