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Manly Workshop Woodworker, fabricator, maker, fixer, designer with decades of experience.

Bring me your broken furniture, your minor home repairs, your upcycling project, or that thing no one else will do.

Big day. I've had my little 5x8 trailer since 1991, 35 years. It started out blue, with no wiring and scrap sheet metal ...
10/09/2026

Big day. I've had my little 5x8 trailer since 1991, 35 years. It started out blue, with no wiring and scrap sheet metal fenders. Over the years I've replaced nearly all of it and upgraded along the way. I learned to weld working on it. I've added new fenders, steps, new tongue, spare tire mount, lift-off tailgate hinges, lights, folding jack, tie downs, and other stuff. It's been a great trailer.

But the time has come to say goodbye and upgrade to something big enough for my zero-turn and my golf cart. The new to me trailer has suspension, a real tailgate that can support heavy equipment, and enough room on the tongue for the spare. It needs some work. But it's a great starting point, and it was too good a deal to pass up.

Busy day in the workshop today. I filled this up twice with shavings and sawdust.
10/04/2026

Busy day in the workshop today. I filled this up twice with shavings and sawdust.

10/03/2026

I'm going to be milling lots of poplar over the next few days. I decided to level up my dust collection game from shop-vac-ville now, instead of waiting to install piping overhead. It's a massive contraption, but works great. Chips end up in the black drum. Fine dust goes in the bag. And the exhaust is filtered through the top. The whole thing is portable so I can roll it close to where I need it.

This heat pump shut off because the condensate line had clogged with funk. The root cause was the installer who thought ...
10/03/2026

This heat pump shut off because the condensate line had clogged with funk. The root cause was the installer who thought it would be cool to run the 3/8" vinyl tubing almost all the way to the foundation. I replaced it with 3/4" PVC, which should stay clear, or at least take a very long time to get funky. See photo captions for details.

More updates on the pantry and dining room project. We decided to upgrade the baseboards and change the lower wall color...
10/02/2026

More updates on the pantry and dining room project. We decided to upgrade the baseboards and change the lower wall color to a darker grey. With a few tweaks to the window trim (see yesterday's post), and new shoe molding, it all came together to elevate the room. You can't tell the pantry door was ever wider, or led outside. Now the pantry just needs a door so I can stop using AI to remove the contents from my photos, lol.

This client had some sloppy window trim to clean up. The unsightly gap between the stool moldings of these adjacent wind...
10/02/2026

This client had some sloppy window trim to clean up. The unsightly gap between the stool moldings of these adjacent windows was made worse by the odd miter angle on one side. I chose to fill the gap with a wedge-shaped piece of stool molding, a custom profile I had to fabricate. Once it was filled, sanded and painted, it looked much better. I filled the gap between the casings with trim, since it was too narrow to paint or apply matching chair rail. And I also replaced the quarter-round molding with the correct shoe molding for a cleaner look.

Sometimes you have to admit you were wrong. I purchased an aftermarket dust chute for my planer based on the reasoning t...
10/01/2026

Sometimes you have to admit you were wrong. I purchased an aftermarket dust chute for my planer based on the reasoning that since I have a powerful dust collector, it would be better to bypass the built-in impeller to reduce power consumption (reducing nuisance breaker trips) and reduce impeller noise. It turns out the impeller serves to cool the motor. So I couldn't completely remove it. And removing the shroud allowed the motor to run hotter. Dust collection wasn't significantly different with the chute. And over time the chute, 3D printed from PLA, warped badly and cracked from the heat inside the planer. It warped so badly that it started to rub the cutterhead, making a lot more noise than the unmodified planer ever did. So basically everything I attempted to improve was made worse. Tonight I put the OEM dust collection shroud back in the planer. Unfortunately, the giant hole I cut in the cover for the aftermarket chute will remain to remind me of my mistake.

This customer's Yukon needed a new water pump. The original 196k mile one had started leaking. Replaced with AC Delco.
09/27/2026

This customer's Yukon needed a new water pump. The original 196k mile one had started leaking. Replaced with AC Delco.

400 board feet, about 1000lb of poplar ready to be put to use. Let's go!
09/13/2026

400 board feet, about 1000lb of poplar ready to be put to use. Let's go!

I came across a deal on some poplar today. The problem is, I don't have space to store 800 board feet!
09/10/2026

I came across a deal on some poplar today. The problem is, I don't have space to store 800 board feet!

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