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matt@customsawdust
@customsawdust.co.uk
Unique furniture designed and handmade in Cheltenham, UK
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https://customsawdustco.etsy.com
I guess? Or capital gains? I am *very much* not an accountant but it feels like tax liability is just one more thing that hasn't concerned them
December 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
45x45x90cm at mo, dimensions of current one (which works for current one, but I'm not so sure for this design)
December 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
at a minimum you'd expect there's a giant tax liability
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
something like this? the dimensions aren't quite right, looks a bit too desk-like at mo, probably needs to be ~10cm lower

the little side shelves are primarily there to prevent racking rather than bulking out the steel frame, but not sure of them either
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
a gazillion years ago I used to work for the railways and got free rail travel. every few weeks the office would do a "cultural visit" - use the free rail travel to pub crawl a random county

we never went to northampton
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
yeah definitely worthy of the first's legacy

had layers of the puzzle that allowed us to feel smart while still surprising - we guessed the baddy and a key location but not how it was put together, yet all the clues were there
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
really like the crater carving, think it works especially well on the charred rim
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
this afternoon allowed some time for #welding guard rails to the angle iron shelf supports

will clean up tomorrow & prepare the steel to join them together 🧵/8
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
next up, cut those rails to length then bend them to a sort of stretched "C" shape 🧵/7
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I also #handmade steel & oak toilet roll holders, which would be an... inventive... way to say "i love you" at Christmas

between £25 & £35 including free UK shipping and also on #etsy at customsawdustco.etsy.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
very brief update, starting to make guard rails - gather ~7.5m of flat bar and, as before, grind off the mill scale & surface rust 🧵/6
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
i'm having to do some metric conversion googling here, but if 22ga is really 0.75mm then i'd have certainly just blown big holes trying to stick weld it
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
you're definitely starting on hardmode stick welding metal that thin but it's all learning!
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I really should do the same on flu, but getting COVID vacs for the household is too much of a stretch at mo. Makes visiting folks at Christmas a bit worrying
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
yeah this has infuriated me this year - constant warning that this year is a bad one, reminding everyone to get a jab, and absolutely no expansion of eligible demographics
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM