Lots of good advice in here that I won't rehash, but I wanted to jump in on the Parkside Tracksaw suggestions. I've had mine for years now and it's incredible value for money. The tracks are far too short and you will quickly get annoyed and crave something longer, but the saw itself is...
good, Saturday was absolutely rammed, easily double last year (which was pretty decent). Sunday was pretty terrible, half or a third of last year. I didn't get much of a chance to look around other than my pre-show amble (with a terrible terrible hangover on Sunday), but the after party and...
To be perfectly honest, even if I owned a CNC I would get my local sheet goods supplier to perform the cuts on their beam saw. It's pretty cheap and way less hassle than dealing with full size boards. I did this when building a large built-in pantry and it was definitely the right call...
Same, excellent place and helpful to hobbyists. One of the owners spent about an hour with me on a Saturday morning picking through a whole stack of oak to find the best quarter sawn.
They also stock ash, beech, cherry and tend to have it in good numbers. I've been after some Elm which seems...
as the title says, I'm looking for a quality bearing guided 1" radius bullnose router bit. I've spent hours trawling google to no avail, and I'm hoping the good citizens of UKWorkshop might know of some obscure router bit company that google doesn't know about.
Excellent effort. Personally I'd be looking at trying to make that top brace behind the bed look more intentional. If there's room when the bed is in the upright position, some lighting or hooks or something maybe.
I'd also want to hide the brackets holding it to the wall, a bit of trim and...
I have a very poorly thought out "indoors" toolkit that stops me having to make numerous trips to the workshop (all of 15m) for trivial tasks like hanging pictures, minor fixes etc. I'm looking to formalise this a bit more and thought that other people probably have similar setups and might...
As a hobbyist I would certainly take on something like that. For the prep/stripping, a random orbital, and some hand sanding blocks are probably all that's required. If you're going to sand it indoors then probably a dust extractor also. Following the advice above regarding finish sounds...
replacing the capacitors didn't work, i've attached video below so you can get an idea of the noise it makes, maybe that helps diagnose. Any ideas most welcome
Just wanted to mention Andy's Man Club, which (terrible name aside) is a great charity that meets on Monday evenings for men to share their feelings. It's an incredible tool if you can bring yourself to go.