Recent content by pgrbff

I recently ordered yorkshire tea for my mum in Venice, 6 boxes of 160 for €15 ish. Only one box turned up, as I suspected. Ordered again, one box again. Upside is both refunded, description was wrong, and my mum got to keep the tea.

Fisch or Famag with hole.

I have something like 600 passwords in my password manager, not sure how I'd remember them otherwise. On the other hand I have no mobile cover where I spend 85% of my time so 2FA can be a bit of a PTA.

expensive looking vise

although 36 hours isn't very long if you can wait a buìit longer

I have to make some 40x60cm chestnut drawer fronts, supported only at the bottom. Ikea draws. The chestnut has been sitting around a long time and has barely moved over 8", even the flatsawn. machined it down to 20mm thick last week.

At those sort of sizes I can't imagine you will have to wait very long.

these have a 2.5mm hole

that's why I want to fit handles, I keep seeing the same thing said

None of my rasps have handles, or files for that matter. How were they secured in a wood handle traditionally?

It is the extra paperwork. I prepared an Amazon UK return 2 days ago. In the UK it is relatively simple, one small declartion on the box of value and country of manufacture. I had 3 copies of the invoice produced by the courier, one copy of the invoice from Amazon, a copy of my passport, a copy...

Can anyone recommend books on the fundamentals of finishing? Not a book on any particular technique but how to prepare and finish pieces prepared with hand tools. Is that too vague?

I find Express VPN terrible where I am. I'm right on the edge of the Freesat footprint so that is OK. But not all the channels.

I don't see how you can have a leg vise on a screw which also touches the floor, it would drag. If I have to hit something that hard, maybe a chisel, not sharpened properly, then I need some waterstones.

I'm probably going to go with the Hovarter mechanisms for wagon and leg vice but I was trying to avoid the St Andrews cross if possible. Any new alternative ideas are very welcome.