Chubber

I've just made a batch of pediments for dressing up some doorways and openings next week I'll make some more! The long one is 3.4m over all.

I'm sorry, no. It was fitted when we moved in, and has a rectangular section wooden lower slat than hooks into purpose machined stops at...

Any saw doctors known to members in the SW? Apologies for the topic drift but eyes\age make fettling my tenon and dovetail saws difficult.

I have a 1.2m square velux in the roof section of my office which gets all the afternoon sun. It has a roller blind with a white back...

JSW,,, "Instead of a pin, mine have a thin strip of rubber matting CA glued to the underside of the nose." Wie hadn't heard of CA glue...

I've posted this before: a Bob Wearing tip? On the safety stick propelling the wood into the blade, cut a 'Vee' into the 'top' of the...

As Recipio says... "A birdsmouth pushstick is not ideal as the wood can lift as you push it into the cut. A homemade 'L' shaped ply jig...

I'm 30 years using a tablesaw and no injuries so far. A few danger points are : 1 Cutting thick boards over 2" especially Iroko. The...

I use the same basic shape, very slightly longer overall, and with a bit more of an elongated 'nose' Instead of a pin, mine have a thin...

Oh! Insert embarrassed emoji... Sorry, another million wasted electrons.

Whoa! Ensure your thicknesser will cut and feed a strip that thin without something making a loud, expensive noise, AND clear the...

A tip worth passing on given to me by Charlie Malia, my woodwork mentor in the Shipwright's shop in HMS St Angelo in the 70s... He had...

A plastic cyclone from Temu fixed on top of a 50 litre blue plastic food drum, odd lengths of 50mm -ish flexi pipe from the tip sucked...

No-one has mentioned a router and 45 degree chamfer bit? As said above, identical lengths are paramount so if the stock is wide enough...

A 2B pencil. Harder pencil marks can be a bu##er to remove.