[gym]What is on your workbench right now? Summer projects thread

[Vector14]

The days are long, the garage is warm and the excuses are gone, so let us see them. Post whatever is currently on your workbench, in your garden or spread across the kitchen table to someone's ongoing objection, big or small, going well or going wrong

The going wrong ones are especially welcome. Finished project photos are lovely but the board learns most from the honest middle, the discovered rot, the part that does not fit, the wall that turned out to be load bearing after all. Someone here has always hit your exact problem before

Give us the what, the why, the budget if you are brave, and where you are stuck if you are stuck. Photos strongly encouraged, and progress updates in this thread rather than letting it die like every January thread did

And the seasonal question, what is the one job you are doing this summer purely because past you refused to do it last summer?

[Owen84]

Rebuilding a garden bench from a skip find. Budget was zero, currently forty quid deep in wood treatment and new fixings, so a normal zero budget project

[BlackWidow]

Skip find plus forty quid is still a win, that bench new is two hundred easily. Post it when the oil dries

[Rabbit]

Honest middle report as requested, the shed roof felt replacement uncovered rot in two joists, which uncovered a wasp situation, which uncovered that I am scared of wasps. Project paused pending courage

[SortedMate]

Wasp guy, do the roof at dawn when they are sluggish, and a joist sister is a Saturday job once the tenants are evicted. You have got this

[Ava]

Public accountability fence painting is what this board is for, we expect photos by August

[EthanHinds]

The job past me refused, painting the fence. Three summers running. Announcing it here specifically so the shame makes me finish

[Glenn]

Kitchen table project here, restoring a box of my grandads hand planes. Slowest possible progress but the first one took shavings this week and I grinned all day

[Runner79]

First shavings off a restored plane is genuinely top five DIY feelings, nothing in a shop bought tool comes close

[StarforgeSocket]

Word of warning from my current disaster, whatever the tutorial says the job takes, the number is for someone with their tools already sharp and their swearing already done

[Transformer Curtis]

Multiply every estimate by three and add a trip to the shop for the fixing you were sure you had. This is the law and it is undefeated

[QuantumLeap38]

Stuck point for the collective, hanging a gate on a brick pier that crumbles when drilled. Resin anchors or am I rebuilding the pier?