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Peterson Projects
In this section we will be publishing tips, tricks and plans for creating furniture, crafts and structures using lumber cut from your sawmill. If you have created something using wood cut from your Peterson sawmill, let us know and you may be the next to be featured in our e-newsletter and on this page. To read these projects hot off the press, sign up to our e-news ‘Cutting Comments’.
Build a Table with Trev
What do you do to thank people who have been a ‘second family’ to you for a decade? Why, replace their broken old Barbeque table with a new one of course! So that’s what I did. You will need: Start with a 5m (16’6”) log cut into the following: 1 x 150x75mm (6”x3”) 1 x [...]
Tips for New Sawmillers
There are so many experienced millers here at Petersons, I wondered what their best tips would be for new millers. So I asked each of them “If I was new to the milling industry and asked for one tip or piece of advice, what would it be?” Here’s what I got from them… The Tips [...]
Building a Compost Bin
Tom Roberts from Portland, Oregon USA recently built a compost bin using a plan from Lowe’s.com How-To Libary. Composting is a great way of reusing your kitchen scraps and garden rubbish and it’s fantastic for your garden. This two-bin composting system can be built by one person in about five hours. The bin holds one [...]
Building a Garden Bench
Want to enjoy the summer sun weather? This month’s Peterson Project is to build a garden bench where you can enjoy as much sun as you want in comfort. This bench should take around a day to build, and it is recommended that you have a intermediate knowledge of building before commencing. You will need: [...]
Making a Chopping Board
This month our multi-talented Sales Consultant Aaron Kalan has prepared a Peterson Project that the kids can help you with! An excellent Christmas gift idea, this simple Chopping Board will impress any cook. So get your mill ready (or email Aaron if you haven’t bought one yet!) get your hands on a router, and have [...]