What "man jobs" have you done today?

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Cut some brass and then used a ring roller to shape rings for inlay into my dining table then epoxied them in place in the smaller section and the inner edge of the larger outside piece
 
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That’s the centre of the table, it’s going to be a gaming table. So the play surface will be under that bit. I am currently working out how to cut a piece of 3/4 inch slate into a 900mm circle with standard tools

After lots of sanding this morning before the rain set in
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New desk time. Had my old Ikea desk for circa 20-25 years and it did me well and would have done more years no issue but, after moving house, it was a bit big for the room it went into (1600mm x 800mmx 1200mm was it was an L-shape desk).

So changed to a Secret Lab Magnus Pro (1500mm x 700mm and no L-shape) :D

Took no longer than 30 mins to build up and that included the "leg swap" procedure as my socket is on the right hand side.
 
Youngest's birthday and she wanted an IKEA 'hack' dressing table she had seen on TikTok ....

It was only four items - two Alex drawers I've build several thousand of over the years - a soft touch pull out drawer and a framed glass shelf

Unfortunately some weird hand gesture didn't turn the flat packed items into a fully built dressing table so did some googling, found some "proper" instructions and cracked on..


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Was a bit of a mare,.but not too bad. She helped which was great and made it a nice Sunday afternoon project and she loves the finished product so a good result all round
 
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{SAS}TB said:
Youngest's birthday and she wanted an IKEA 'hack' dressing table she had seen on TilTok ....

It was only four items - two Alex drawers I've build several thousand of over the years - a soft touch pull out drawer and a framed glass shelf
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This is great! Already shown my wife as frankly it looks like it would keep all her jewellery gubbins and makeup cleaner and dust free.
 
LuckyBenski said:
This is great! Already shown my wife as frankly it looks like it would keep all her jewellery gubbins and makeup cleaner and dust free.
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Nicely done! Have seen similar posten on Fb. You've made a great job of it :)
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Thanks both :D

The fiddliest bit was the six shelf fixings and getting them in the right place to fit the holes in the shelf and flush with the two Alex drawers

Certainly a measure twice drill once situation!

The instructions I used are here if anyone is interested :)

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5 IKEA Items, One Seriously Glam Vanity Desk Setup

Need to streamline your make-up routine? An organized vanity is a great place to start, especially if you can see everything at a glance. That's precisely what this IKEA vanity desk hack from Merve @interieurmerve does. The divided tray keeps items organized, and the glass top makes it a cinch...
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The wife amazed me earlier on by saying are we going to change the front and back rooms around(I have been saying about doing it for several years with a luke warm responses). Now she wants it doing we had to get on with it(after a bit of a argument about timing) all of the furniture has been moved over, the second Xmas tree assembled and all the small stuff moved as well. My job I took upon myself(she can't even get her head around it) was to get the TV working in the back room, along with the computer, Dvd player and the Humax box. Luckily a coaxial cable was already in there aswell as 2 hdmi cables( I'm using a 4 input Hdmi splitter with 2 outputs). The computer, Dvd player and the Humax box are the inputs and the outputs go to the TV and also a projector. Got it all connected and working, just need to get the wife to use one more remote to switch off the splitter.:(
 
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Took my son to Muay Thai this morning, then popped round my folks' house to carry on building my youngest's first PC.



Phanteks XT M3 case is great, but need to think cable routing carefully, as the holes to the rear chamber are *tight*.
 
Hung the TV on the wall bracket with my son's help, just need to level it up. Cleared a bit of space in the conservatory to put the paint pots from the backroom and take a box of Vic 20 computer games upstairs.
 
RedMogg said:
Took my son to Muay Thai this morning, then popped round my folks' house to carry on building my youngest's first PC.



Phanteks XT M3 case is great, but need to think cable routing carefully, as the holes to the rear chamber are *tight*.
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Don't suppose you took a pic of the cable routing did you? I'm going to be building a system in the same case in a week or so...
 
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