Tony Needs Hobbies

Four weeks ago I showed how to make mead. In this video I will show you how I bottle a batch of mead made six months ago following a similar recipe. The most important thing in home brewing is cleaning and sanitizing, so I take a lot of time showing how to do this. Then,

Mead making, how hard can it be? This week I decided to try it out. Turns out that you don’t need that much equipment at all and the process is much simpler than for instance the beer brewing process. Get the best quality honey you can afford, some wine or mead yeast and yeast nutrient,

As a beginners leather working project, I decided to make a leather belt. To do the hand stitching I used the stitching pony that I made in the last video. This tool worked wonderfully and the resulting saddle stitched leather belt is real tough and good looking. Better than expected since my lack of leather

Last week I made a stitching pony for leather working projects. In a few weeks I will be making a leather belt. Hence I need this stitching pony. This DIY project is made out of ash wood. It allows me to saddle stitch leather. Making it took me almost a full week in the evenings

Last week I made a huge bar of natural soap. Soap making is a hobby that I have never tried before. With the necessary safety precautions taken, it turned out not being difficult at all. I made my own mold just the other day. The natural soap that I made using equal parts of coconut

Winter is coming… Again. Time to help out birds with their nesting needs. In this video I will create some awesome bird houses and a nest box. They will serve multiple needs, because I am going to use them as home made Christmas gifts. You will see me measuring and cutting the wood. After that,

Coffee is something I have been enthusiastic about for many years now. I Always thought that roasting coffee would require a lot of fancy and expensive equipment. That’s why I haven’t tried to do it myself until now! The stovetop method that I will be utilizing requires only a saucepan, a heat source and a

A couple of weeks ago I attended a Bob Ross-style oil painting workshop. This was the first time I ever painted on canvas. My wife and I both created some lovely landscape paintings. This weekend it was time to put these paintings into a frame and hang them on the wall, together with a hummingbird

Two iconic topics: Lego and Ford Mustang! They are combined wonderfully in the epic Lego set 10265. In this video I am building this set in time lapse and show you what I love about it. Have fun watching!

In this video I will be extending my current workbench so that it is bigger and I have more workspace. This will enable me to work on bigger, better and more awesome projects in the future.