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matt@customsawdust
@customsawdust.co.uk
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Unique furniture designed and handmade in Cheltenham, UK
Shameless self promotion and liker of pet pics
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matt@customsawdust @customsawdust.co.uk · Jun 20
whoever controls the spice controls the universe

and probably has a really nice spice rack

you too can have a really nice #handmade spice rack and avoid all the inconvenience of taming sandworms

customsawdustco.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
A handmade spice rack on a kitchen counter. It has three oak shelves attached to a white steel frame. The lowest shelf is widest, holding five spice jars, the middle shelf holds four, and the narrow top shelf holds three. A coffee mug, coffee beans, and moka espresso pot are adjacent. A handmade spice rack on a kitchen counter. It has three oak shelves attached to a black steel frame. The lowest shelf is widest, holding five spice jars, the middle shelf holds four, and the narrow top shelf holds three. A coffee mug, coffee beans, and moka espresso pot are adjacent.
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Pushy promo post: in an effort to clear the spare bedroom i'm running a 25% sale till 2nd December on some end-of-line designs, when they're gone they're gone

Like this, the first spice rack I ever sold, now £33.75 inc UK shipping

customsawdustco.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
A black steel spice rack on a counter, it has three shelves in an asymmetric design with the bottom shelf wider than the top. It is filled with 12 herb & spice jars, a house plant is partially in shot to the right. An empty black steel spice rack. It has three shelves and an asymmetric design, the bottom shelf wider than the top. Adjacent, a bag of coffee beans and a grinder are just in shot.
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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investigate the noises from the attic now or wait till morning?

(it sounds more like mice are living up there than an axe murderer, but can't rule out a mouse with an axe)
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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he's barely moved from that spot all week
A tabby cat sits on a blanket in front of a fire.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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just took bins out, am now regaling family of my Scott of the Antarctic style battle through the frozen wastes #FridayBinsClub
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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extremely niche hyper local content: if anyone in Cheltenham needs a locksmith, can highly recommend Daniel Herbert at Just Carpentry & Locks who came round & showed me how to fix our door myself

(door had sunk, preventing roller latches catching, secret allen bolts under the hinges raise it)
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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still enjoy the engineering challenge of tweaking new designs - that interplay between aesthetic, material cost, ease of manufacture etc
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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squeezed a bit of time to make a start on restocking a few spice shelves. Ground off mill scale, moaned about how much I dislike doing that, then cut to size, drilled & countersunk

tomorrow will weld on guard rails, then find some oak to make the shelf🧵/1
Several lengths of angle iron on a workbench. They are shiny, having had mill scale ground off, and are drilled & countersunk to accommodate future fixings. They will eventually become #handmade spice shelves #craftsky
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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cunningly, I've ordered materials to make some new product designs just in time to launch after Christmas and in the middle of the January slump
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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only after they sell do i remember how fiddly these cantilevered #handmade spice racks are to box up

black model now out of stock for the foreseeable, white model remaining

customsawdustco.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
A black steel and oak spice rack with three shelves on a kitchen counter. The middle shelf is cantilevered out to the left allowing space for extra tall bottles. The shelves are filled with herbs and spices, vinegar and oil. A coffee cup, espresso moka pot, and coffee beans are adjacent to the spice rack. A white steel spice rack with three oak shelves on a kitchen counter. The middle shelf is cantilevered out to the left allowing space for extra tall bottles. The shelves are empty.
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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the #caturday morning face of a cat who spent all Friday night partying hard
A tabby cat lies on his side, slightly hungover from a night on the zoomies.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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found some merch from a very old job where I was employed to manage the FTP server for the Cyberdyne Systems model T800 Terminator
A Skynet branded bottle opener on a workbench
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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make your commute through the rain a little brighter by browsing #handmade steel & oak spice shelves on #etsy

customsawdustco.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

(unless you're the train driver, in which case wait till you're on your break)
Two slim spice shelves on a kitchen wall. They have silver/grey steel frames and solid oak shelves. The top shelf is smaller, holding 7 herb and spice bottles, the bottom shelf is larger and holds 11 herb, spice, vinegar, and oil bottles. Beneath, on the counter, is a coffee mug, moka espresso pot, and bag of coffee beans.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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another day removing mill scale, remains my least fun task but essential to avoid rusty furniture
Two long flat steel bars clamped to a workbench; they are dark & oily from mill scale. An angle grinder is in the background. Close up of a flat steel bar on a workbench. Half has been ground to a dull silver sheen, the other half still dark with mill scale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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surprising no-one, turns out doom scrolling is not an effective insomnia cure
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Time and time again, the United Kingdom’s robins will literally dance right up to you and shake out a bag containing all zero of the fucks they possess directly in front of your face.
A robin who has arrived on the decking outside my house, purely to gloat sickeningly about the fact that he now owns it. A robin stares me down, while sitting on my friend's bicycle, and asking me what the fuck I am going to do about it.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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he did not look this cute when he started #caturday by hacking up a furball in the bedroom at 2am
Close up of a tabby cat lying on his side half asleep. He looks particularly cute. More so than he did hacking up a furball at 2am anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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embarrassingly long time before I realised this wasn't a song about saving the whales #totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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i make a toilet roll holder with a little shelf so you can play with your lego while having a wee, but if you don't have any lego i also make a plain model. It's slightly cheaper so you can spend the money saved on some lego

#handmade by me and on #etsy at customsawdustco.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Two steel toilet roll holders resting on a white surface; one is black and one white. A toilet roll, two black screws, and two red wall plugs are adjacent.
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Mushroom jars! These little beauties are currently on the Isle of Skye at a cute little store called Made on Skye in Broadford, along with a host of our other creations. Stop by if you’re there!

#scottishmade #skye #handmade #isleofskye #scottishcrafts #woodcrafts #decor #mushrooms
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Dunelm playing bangers I used to dance to in the local indie disco is violence.
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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ah bollocks, i'm feeling christmasy. didn't mean for this to happen, i aimed to be one of the cool kids, but the john lewis ad sucker punched me and i'm now listening to turn of the century electronic dance in the manner of a Victorian gent with a phonograph
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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*approaching cheese section in supermarket* oh I see. The fucking part timers have turned up because it's Christmas. Fuck you. Fuck YOU. I'm here getting stilton every damn day of the year and you useless fucks come along in November and want fucking APRICOTS in it. You SAVAGES. You SCUM.
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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i smush girders and trees into an aesthetically pleasant #handmade shape which holds ~16 spice jars, make the result available on #etsy, and take a shaky-cam video on an ancient nokia to post on Bluesky because i'm a whizz at marketing

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November 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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of the four Royal Mail Tracked 24 parcels I've sent in the last fortnight, two were delivered next day, one took five days, and it looks like the one sent yesterday hasn't moved out of Cheltenham

obviously not going to inflict Evri on customers, how do people like others? DPD?
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM