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I am an Instinctive Archer and shoot 3D with a Traditional wooden barebow . I am constantly building arrows to test with different woods and techniques and experimenting with bow tuning . I haven't yet constructed my own bow but my neighbour has now made two, which work surprisingly well. Are...

I'm sure that everyone has probably received a warning this morning about Google closing down their Album Archive service . We have until 19th July to download all of our stored video and images etc using their Google Takeout service. This kinda reminds me of the scam that Photobucket pulled...

I thought it might be useful to have a sort of think tank of ideas on how we can become more energy efficient in our homes this Winter. We have become so energy reliant and wasteful over the past few decades. Back in the early 60's our house was one of the first in our street to have central...

I have come across a large supply of 12mm OSB boards 1225 x 800mm I am thinking about buying 20x or so for this project as Ply would be way too expensive and MDF not strong enough for this application as it needs to be self supporting from the edges like a shelf and carry modest loads . Mdf is...

35+ degrees c in my South Somerset garden .....much too hot to work today . A decade or two ago its the sort of temperature you'd fly away to Europe for

I finally broke the shaft of my beloved old claw hammer .It is 53 years old this year, bought for my first job on building work in 1968 and there hasn't been a day in the past 50 years that I haven't used it for something or other. I've already told swmbo that it must be buried with me;)😁 At...

Lots of conflicting advice on the net and no real conclusion so I thought that I would ask on here. Swmbo has stumped up for replacing all of our decking and guess who is having to do the job !.....;):) lucky me.. After removing and replacing the existing decking and digging out 30x rubble...

In 2016 I inherited my Grandfather's 100+ year old brass bound ditty box when my Father passed away at the ripe old age of 93 . It contains all of the Family documents up until the millenium including many Birth Death and Marriage certificates from the mid 1800s and property deeds It is not...

I have two wooden 3x drawer filing cabinets. 640mm x 450mm For some time now i've had the idea of inserting a Makita Trimmer router into the top of one of them and a jigsaw in the other. I see many advantages in using a filing cabinet as opposed to building from scratch . The cabinets are on...

Over the past few years I have knocked up a couple of crude trimmer router tables from chipboard and plywood to complete various projects and they have been very successful . I have had in my mind for some time to build some portable tables on castors for my Trimmer router and Jigsaw and...

This year my partner decided to make her Family and friends some Triptych tiled Trivets as Christmas gifts. They consist of personal photographic prints modge podge'd to ceramic tiles which will be glued to 9mm MDF plaques with round over edges and laquered. I cut the plaques to size for...

I could really use another perspective on this problem as all the ideas I have come up with are not particularly good. As you can see the tube clock needs to fix into a thin 5mm plywood panel so that the majority of the clock is hidden behind the panel. The clock case is thin metal so it is...

I have loads of oak cupboard doors that need sanding for my campervan renovation. The problem I have is that most have a fine edge profile which would be lost if I attempted to sand with a block and sandpaper. My idea is to recut the external edge profile of every door to the same profile on...

My fence must have slipped slightly when cutting a rebate for the bottom of a box and now the drawers are too tight. Is there any way of salvaging this by packing the joint and maintaining sufficient structural intergrity? the problem is its only 2mm I need to find and I cannot think of a way...

I am constructing a simple box with single rebated joints using 18mm hardwood veneered ply (Wickes ) . I need to rebate 18mm x 12mm from the top and bottom sections for the sides of the box I have done some experimenting and I'm finding that the wood is burning and the bit has lost its edge...

I could do with some tips on cutting plywood and achieving a reasonable edge finish. I do not have access to a table saw all I have is a cheap unbranded circular saw. I'm looking to replace the 18T blade with a 30T blade will that be sufficient teeth ? The blade fitted is a 160mm x20 x2.5mm but...

looked all over the place and I can only find 2x sources both abroad . One in the US and the other China. I'm looking for a 1/4" drawer locking bit for use with 12mm thick timber . Interestingly there is a 'How To' on this site featuring the CMT lock bit but Axminster no longer stock these bits.

anyone know the screw type and thread tpi ? I forgot to order some new longer screws to enable me to fit the trimmer to a lift out plate . t they must be a standard 3mm flat head but I've mislaid my thread pitch guages

Searched youtube till my eyes bleed :cry: I have ordered a Makita RT0700c trimmer which will hopefully arrive this weekend. How would I attach this trimmer to a drop-in board for a router table I will be building? is there a special adapter plate I'll need ? The base of the trimmer looks...

this is my first router so I have a lot to learn about bit selection and operation . I would appreciate some help with selection of some suitable 1/4 " bits for constructing a toolchest cabinet. I have an extremely linited budget so they'l have to be a cheap as chips range like siverline . I...