Special inexpensive and practical furniture for a garden cottage is not available for sale yet, so people usually bring all sorts of old things there. But what looked good once in a city apartment will look out of place and feel uncomfortable in a small country room: dark polishing on cabinets, worn upholstery tapestry… So Read more…
There was a time when it was difficult to buy any attachment in a shop, and especially a metalworking machine tool. It was expensive, and you had to run around the trading outlets. Today it is easy to get such an item—just pay. But DIY enthusiasts still don’t disappear, offering more and more new designs Read more…
If the layout of a country house or dacha is such that the largest room borders the kitchen, then instead of separated heat sources (an ordinary stove or fireplace in the “living room”, and the stove in the kitchen) it makes sense to build a stove-fireplace-stove complex. In our country house this is exactly how Read more…
In one of the issues of previous years, your magazine published a note — “Again — a dowel”. It should be said that the suggested versions of a metal combined dowel are rather complex to manufacture, but their use is justified for hollow panels and shield partitions, which in modern new builds are not that Read more…
I’ll probably be right in saying that most home hobbyists dream of having a universal rotary tool at their disposal. How many opportunities it opens for its owner! Engraving, abrasive machining of parts with complex shapes, making stamps and press forms yourself, drilling and countersinking holes located in places hard to reach with a regular Read more…
A combined tabletop circular saw is needed by every model-makers’ club. It makes it easier to carry out a whole range of woodworking tasks; in addition, by replacing the tool on the bench, you can sand wooden parts, polish metal surfaces, and sharpen tools. To make such a machine, you need a single-phase electric motor Read more…
With a fairly powerful compact drive, the electric drill has long become one of the leaders of household tools. And with attachments and all kinds of fixtures, it is quite happy to get ahead in agricultural work: it already mows, threshes, and performs other operations excellently. It becomes a true universal tool! Moreover, thanks to Read more…
The desire to build a house came to me at the same time as receiving, in the mid-1980s, a plot of land — the cherished six hundred square meters. The question of what kind of house to build — brick or wooden — caused no problems. Brick and concrete walls had already tired me in Read more…
Before any home workshop maker sooner or later faces the problem of cleaning the workshop. However, it is not always possible to get by with a broom or brushes. An optimal solution could be a household vacuum cleaner. Of course, in stores that sell various powered tools you can find special vacuum cleaners for workshops, Read more…
There’s no need to prove how important it is to have a water reserve on a garden plot: if something happens to the irrigation system, flowerbeds and lawns will turn into hay in just a week of July heat. So when my old steel tank rusted through and started leaking, I urgently needed a replacement. Read more…
