Recent content by Jacob

Get a grip - you'd only ask for help if you couldn't do it. In the process you might also get shown how to do it next time. I had a Dyson briefly and that used to block up in mysterious ways. I managed to do it myself after a bit of a struggle but I like to think I'm fairly practical. Others...

What a lot of fuss! Be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic! :ROFLMAO: Barrack room lawyers? :unsure: Get a grip - it's just about people helping each other to mend things! A very ordinary, normal, sociable human activity and long may it continue. PS if @deema asks for any help or advice about...

It's a shocker at our local "recycling" depot - skips full of flashy looking electrics and electronics which haven't lasted long and were not reparable. The bite in the bum is that they were made by low paid in China or wherever, take away jobs here, being cheap they reduce pressure on wage...

Sorry, nonsense. You've only got to think of this forum where I guess a majority don't make a living from woodwork. A vast amount of unpaid work goes on in every household, every community, every country, and has done throughout history. One in every town? How about the common sight of 5 estate...

So nobody should do anything for anybody without charging for it?

No it's the landlords who inflate the rents. Simple mistake. Charities don't pay business rates, which is part of the reason why they are there. They are just an extension of voluntary work which has always been done everywhere, largely by unpaid volunteers, and are a valuable service to the...

Yes, amongst millions of tables, but when you start looking for breadboard ends on tables they are less common than you might think and tend to be only for utilitarian uses - kitchens etc. Also for bread boards of course and cheaper drawing boards - better quality boards are on battens with...

Three woodworkers turn up on the Derbyshire Open Arts page: https://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/artists?genre=7&location=All&disabled=All&preview=All&commissions=All&workshops=All&solo=All&undefined=Apply&undefined=Apply

Derbyshire Open Arts in a couple of weeks. https://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/ You could drop in to the chapel we converted, now occupied by Derek & Tessa https://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/artists/derek-harbinson which we are pleased about as he is a craftsman and using the building as we...

Having the riving knife in place helps prevent the workpiece gripping the blade and getting lifted/thrown. Having the crown guard in place further helps prevent it lifting. If it does it gets thrown out horizontally rather than up and dangerously.

I wondered about woodwork in our local repair cafe but couldn't see how to make it work, without bench etc. However I did run a short freehand sharpening afternoon a couple of years ago. I was asked to do it as a fund raiser for Alzheimers with everybody chipping in a tenner and getting a free...

Not if you use two. You press down (and in towards the fence) with the one in your left hand further up the workpiece, whilst you push with the right hand one at the near end of the workpiece. With variations of course. I'm 38 years into it! I claim no credit for this it just happens naturally...

I always recommend the bog standard plastic job because familiarity helps if you just stick to one pattern, and picking them up just becomes normal routine every time. I also think it's a more carefully thought out design than it looks and is efficient/effective. Make copies from mdf or ply...

There's a lot of pricey gadgets around, generally I'm not impressed. Nothing is as cheap and effective as always to use two push sticks. You can get everything else wrong but if your hands are out of the way they won't get hurt. They also give you better control in many ways (with a bit of...

2.5mm is too thin for most thicknessers, which most likely would chew it up anyway. The answer is to add a low friction bed in the form of a 10mm sheet of PTFE. Same size as the bed plus 20mm or so where you attach a lip to latch it on. No other fixing needed. The extra thickness means you can...