Recent content by Cabinetman

Or cut the bottom off a taller one, reinforcing what’s left?

Well that was a new one on me! So I looked it up, nice, more like a fruit wood and quite expensive! Saw one selling for twice that of Yew. If you put wild service timber into Google there are a few yards selling it, they may be interested- or not! And probably will need to put a large mark up...

Not something I’ve tried but a quick think came up with this, draw what you want on a sheet of carbon paper then put it onto the wood and use a hard point to transfer it onto the wood. Is carbon paper even still made? Lol.

Thanks TRITON that’s an incredible build. All those scarf joints and tar etc, quite wonderful. And it REALLY shifted when at sea!

So just to be clear, you aren’t going to make a ladder that way. Just don’t please, ask on here. The reason there is an unthreaded portion on screws is so that the first piece of wood you screw through will be pulled down tight against the wood underneath without having to drill a clearance...

It’s the sort of thing that would be good to hire I suppose. Doubt anybody does though- sorry I can’t help, and no that’s not being tight, just practical. Ian

I bought a Conecut years ago that’s still going strong, it gives a really good clean, but slightly tapered cut. Ian

Well that’s certainly different, I thought I had seen most vice arrangements! What is the advantage to having a long jaw and being off centre, and how much cramping force do you get towards the far end?

Being an inventive and unconventional sort of person who doesn’t trust other people’s designs and ideas, I would want to build an adjustable one to check out the seating position. It also may be that your client may want his to be different to his wife’s? Custom made to individuals leg length...

Well we will all have different views on that, personally it would be a Record 53 with quick release. But I can see the case for fitting what it would have been fitted with originally. Ian

Can’t quite see, is the storage built into the surface of the bench? So was there a large hole there which was actually a box and it’s then later been planked over? Most unusual, I would imagine to have worked it would have had a hinged lid, presumably it was to store tools, but it would have...

A loud alarm, yes I have a Master Blaster in my workshop, designed to be so loud it’s disorientating and believe me it is, all you want to do is get out of there! BUT you do have to remember to hide the ear defenders. Ian

Not quite sure what it will be like, (pay attention at the back boy!) but I must say that’s an incredible bit of turning, I’ve done a bit here and there but there’s no way I would have tackled that. Ian

This was a recent thread, lots of answers on there.

@SimonB other ways to make workshop doors more secure are, don’t have a traditional letterbox, they can use that to cut horizontally though the door allowing them to open the top or bottom of the door that isn’t then locked! Galvanised tin sheet can be carriage bolted to the face of the door to...