Projects
Assembling a working V8 engine from a Ugears kit
Completed February 2026
Assembling the steampunk-themed Nempnett Thrubwell kitchen timer, as devised by John Bunce of Steam Head Inventions
Completed January 2026
Commissioning a Grundig TK18L tape recorder acquired through eBay - with a few musical digressions
Completed October 2024
Building a simple guitar inspired by the BBC programme 'Cigar Box Blues'
Last updated 6 May 2025
Assembling a wooden yacht kit with (a somewhat limited) clockwork motor
Completed April 2025
Decades of developing a variety of websites while the wider world web made its own arrangements ...
Completed August 2024
Project to strip down a 1928 Underwood Model 3 typewriter, aiming to clean, renovate and re-assemble the machine to working condition
Completed May 2024
Assembling another pinhole camera. This time with wooden components and materials for in-house film development and processing
Completed March 2024
Replacing Linda's Blackberry phone battery. It's more of a task than a project, so plenty of time to muse over our outmoded mobiles ..
Completed January 2024
Assembling a mechanical piano kit. Not sure what Johann Pachelbel would have made of this rendering of his Canon, as it should have incorporated 3 violins ...
Completed January 2024
Assembling an illuminated bookshelf nook. Some fiddly fabrication is rewarded by an insight into rust, smut, mildew and mould!
Completed September 2023
Constructing and firing up a Kontax model KG09 Stirling Engine.
Completed April 2023
Refurbishing Tom's old Tamiya remote control Mini Cooper and fitting new body shell
Completed April 2023
Another kit, this one lying untouched for well over 15 years. My Dad had built one to such high standards that I was too intimidated to tackle mine!
Completed September 2022
Constructing a cardboard pinhole camera from a kit, taking photos and finally sending the film off to be developed ...
Completed June 2022
Building a 2,354 piece LEGO model of NASA's space shuttle Discovery.
Completed May 2021
Constructing a Chord CAL-K1 guitar kit; finishing the solid alder body and adding a maple neck, pickguard and strings.
Completed October 2020
Assembling a mechanical Vitascope kit
Completed January 2020
Taking on an abandoned eBay project to rebuild an original 1969 diesel Series IIa Land Rover, converted to a Series III petrol model using 1972 donor parts.
Completed August 2018
Refurbishing a 1930s Remington portable typewriter
My books - some that I have written and some that are created from photo albums
