Recent content by DavidB

Thanks for the update Rob- glad to hear it was only a temporary issue and has since been sorted. I'm not really in a position to apply again at present but I might consider it again in the longer term.

There's a wood turning club in Musselburgh- Fisherrow wood working group, although their website says they've started a waiting list for membership due to high demand. I visited the Broxburn club several years ago and they seemed like a good bunch, but I had the same problem as Droogs with the...

Hi Mike, From the picture it looks like you have a species of pine there, not western red cedar. All the best, David

Hello, Christopher Clarke Antiques; http://www.campaignfurniture.com/ have an archive gallery which might be useful. You could also pick up a copy of 'Campaign Furniture' by Chris Schwarz if you're near Lee Valley. DB

Thanks all for the responses- 25 seems to work fine. Interesting bit of history, although stamping Foreign in lieu of a brand name (rather than just leaving it blank) seems a bit superfluous. Cheers, DB

Apologies in advance if this prompts one of those sharpening "debates", but I was wondering if there's a consensus on the honing angle for this block plane I picked up on ebay- just the standard 30 degrees? It's a bevel-up affair with the iron bedded at ~25 degrees. It has "FOREIGN" cast on...

I'm planning to build a casket-style case for my banjo, a bit like this one (the plans were online somewhere): But you probably wouldn't fit in that unless you're really small...

Wow, that would be really useful for that summer week we get around April.

Thanks for that. Using a coping saw hadn't even occurred to me, although in my defense I don't even own one yet so I'd like to think I would have had the gumption to figure it out eventually! I imagine a concertina-d cake stand column would be fairly do-able, but as I'm not a fan of cake I'd...

Hi Dave That's a great design. I particularly like the wee gothic windows. Can I ask how you cut them? Is there more than one piece of wood involved? I can't picture the most efficient way to do that. Or maybe you just cut them out with a jigsaw? Sorry, I'm a complete beginner and need to learn!

Thanks all for the helpful advice. I think springing for some better quality tools is probably wise. If I only buy what i need for any given project it shouldn't feel too painful! I had been looking at the Paul Sellers workbench building videos on youtube thinking something along those lines...

Hi. Can anyone advise a newbie on gathering some basic hand tools? I've no real experience but I've always wanted to have a go at woodworking and I'm keen to get started on some basic bits of furniture from the projects in DK's Woodwork manual. I'm in a flat so planning to stick with hand tools...