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I have a decent collection of "Woodworker" Magazines dating back as early as 1951. Some doubles, some missing and a few with missing covers. They are in varying conditions. I have some of the fold out inserts as well, but they came loose and I haven't endeavoured to home them in their...

After years of waiting I should soon hopefully be in a position to construct myself a workspace at the bottom of my garden. My plan is to assemble a 40mm thick log cabin which can be viewed on the link below. https://www.tuin.co.uk/Aiste-Log-Cabin-5-x-3m.html To try and keep costs down, and so...

Evening All, I have just relocated to the Wet Midlands and am on a mission to familiarise myself with the area. Can anyone recommend any decent Car Boot Sales or shops anywhere that I could potentially find the odd second hand tool at? Wolverhampton and Birmingham area are my stomping...

I'm up in the area around Wolverhampton for the next few days visiting family and come up reasonably regularly. Does anyone know of any decent shops, merchants, markets or car boots in the area where I might be able to find some half decent second hand tools? Would be nice to have some...

Received a package in the post today that got me quite excited. Look what was inside. The nicest thing about these is that they are still in the original packing box sent from London to Essex. The books are immaculate condition and contain a whole range of how-to's on Carpentry...

I'm learning to sharpen my saws at the moment. I've had a go on my large 7 point rip saw and its cutting reasonably well but not as good as it could be. I watched a video on sharpening recently which was quite comprehensive and used a technique which I've seen before where a mill file is used...

Im planning on making some boxes that use rebates with decorative dowels. I've always wanted an easy way of creating cross grain rebates to a small depth (1/16" for example) to make dovetailing easier. So does anyone have any suggestions? I can't really afford to buy a Skew Rebate plane...

I'm thinking about building myself a new workbench using the nicholson design. Various versions that I like include Christopher Schwarzs knockdown and Mike Siemsens Naked Woodworker Bench. In both builds they use wood straight from a DIY store. I generally avoid using timber from B&Poo and...

It's unusual for me to be talking about cut nails as I normally bite mine but here I go diving into the world of ironmongery. I've been reading about several projects in different books that talk about cut nails. The most prolific being the packing case in The Joiner a d Cabinetmaker. I...

Went for a little look round Axminster yesterday whilst on holiday to see what the next tool I might be saving towards. I can only really afford to spend £60 a month on tools and such but I have managed to flesh out most of what I need. The main thing I struggle with at the moment is planing...

Just watched this with missus on 4od. It was very good I definitely recommend giving it a watch. Plus I spotted a Hammer 4400 in the background apparently it is fit for (a descendent of) a king!

I've just seen that Workshop Heaven are selling a No1 Smoothing Plane at similar dimensions to the Stanley. In his blog post Matthew mentioned the one off produced for a friend (who if I'm writing in remembering is Dodge and his son) and now there are more. Is it wrong that at 25 and only...

Helped my family clear out a few rooms of an elderly relatives house this weekend. A lot of stuff going to charity but unfortunately a lot of water damaged items from a leak ending up in a skip. I did find this hanging from a pulley mounted on the underside of the garage roof, quite...

I was hoping to build myself some tool storage and have always fancied working in Poplar to make a change from Redwood/Scots Pine. I can't/don't drive yet so need to find a supplier that will deliver wood of a good quality. It is quite hard when you are unable to go through boards yourself...

Having read several stories about the potential dangers of diseased Ash trees in this country including this one ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19737729 It is not surprising that some people are calling for the borders to be closed on importing Ash into the country in fear of having a...

I was reading an article on the popular woodworking magazine website that talks about how to calculate the shift in wood due to seasons. http://www.popularwoodworking.com/video/tricks-video/how-to-calculate-wood-shrinkage-and-expansion It involves knowing the width of a board, the change in...

Hey Guys, I started off a topic about rasps a while back to look into using them to produce some curved work and doing reshaping etc. After people pitching in different opinions, I decided to plump for the the WH Continental Rasps instead of the Liogier mainly because of the £20 savings. It...

I have been mulling these over for the last few days now, as I think they would be quite useful for shaping some curved work that I'm doing for the missus. I wanted to know if anyone uses them and could recommend a particular type? Currently I'm thinking of going with the continental ones on...

Has anyone managed to construct a decent jig for routing keys/splines into mitred box sides? I have seen a lot for the tablesaw on the Internet, but as I work in a school, even in the holidays I think I would get into a fair bit of trouble if I removed the crown guard and riving knife. I do...

Been chatting to the wife about holidays and because money is scarce due to being young, newly married and all that we will be spending part of my *Cough* 6 week holiday *ahem* house sitting at her parents near Wolves. Seeing as I will be there for a week or two I was wondering if anyone on the...