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This thread suddenly jumped from Feb 2021 to a few minutes ago. The technology has matured and UK workshop has a forum, Cad, 3d printing etc., which is active and contemporary.

The certificate you get from FENSA is full of disclaimers and to some extent worthless. It does avoid the need for building control certification and is useful when you sell the house (as we, or our heirs, all will one day) so you can provide the paper that the buyers solicitor will ask for.

I have an old Titan mitre saw, OK ish. Bought a Saxon bladei, it's like a new machine. Well worth the investment and I suspect it would be the same for a circular saw. My experience with jig saws is less, but it always seems a bit random. I normally buy cheap blades and change them often...

Dabop (above) opens the door to fresh thinking. If you treat the short support tubes as spacers so the work is done by the through bolt/screw from inside the door to the handle most difficulties disappear. Developing that a bit, if your handles were rectangular tube, maybe you can get it with...

There are lots of useful thoughts above about the slabs etc., but don't forget the soil beneath. Chances are it will be compacted, cold, no texture, no worms, maybe a giant ants nest, very likely impoverished. If the patio was laid at the time of building the house, it may well be a repository...

Clarke also as well. As a temporary fix a bungee hooked on the operating handle will help as a return on short stroke work. I'd not spend too much on it, but it does have cast base and table, some are pressed and lighter duty.

I have metal up and over doors. A quick and easy way to improve security is to drill c. 8mm through the side, the metal return, below the pivot point and continue the hole into the wooden frame. Insert a pin of some kind, I use tent pegs, invisible from outside. After a bit I painted the top...

Spalted beech vase, (in the style of Lucy Rie perhaps) 16mm plastic test tube lined so you can use it as a specimen vase as well as for dry stuff

A seed mix containing yellow rattle is good, suppresses grass a bit. RHS (rhs.org) has useful guidance, no need to be a member, search for wildflower meadow. The chance of natural colonisation probably varies a bit with what's around you but I'm constantly astonished by wild flowers popping...

The AWGB website, no need to be a member, has a list of members who accept commissions. They hide it very very well. Expand the Resources tab, member services tab, you will find it. Or maybe a phone call to the secretary of. your nearest woodturning club, AWGB has contact list somewhere on...

Or any way to stop it when no one is on the footplate, nor any evidence of safety gear, and at times the operator standing on the moving platform, which was advanced by a crank handle very close to the blade area. Got through it pretty fast though, and offcuts were used to feed the fire to make...

Might not be ideal in a workshop.

By 45-60 thick I presume you mean wide. Unless you are making dozens, by hand will be fine. Maybe a good quality fine tooth tenon saw and a plastic or metal mitre guide block, lots about and inexpensive. A deep mitre block will keep the saw blade vertical as well as at 45 degrees. And a set of...

Agree. You may not need power tools and associated risk when hand tools can do the job, especially for one offs or things you do infrequently. I often use a saw powered by tea and biscuits converted into human arm energy.

There is a longstanding permanent pinned thread at the top of the General Woodworking forum on this site. "Woodworking and craft shows and events". Maybe best to post there so we don't have 2 places to look.

There are a few databases online, like the wood database, and some charts of wood density. Your pieces are similar sizes, and sometimes just picking each one up and ranking them heavy to light can help you confirm your identification. I think the ones you have are similar densities apart from...

Could you put your bed up on a few bricks and put the printer underneath? Then long jobs could run overnight with occasional supervision. I can't see why anyone would object ....:) Seriously though, I often think of getting a printer but worry about having another "thing" to accommodate...

Outside the back door is a small brown bucket with a tight fitting lid, used for vegetable peelings which will end up on the compost heap. In the garage is a very old orange square bucket that I use for car washing. Alongside the shed I have an old black bucket with a cracked rim, I use it for...

I'm not a great fan of super glossy but its a matter fo taste. Plus - customer is always right. A few years back we stayed in a holiday rental with epoxy coated live edge everything, worktops, tables, walk in, go "wow" but after a week it was as if it was shouting at me. It was quite nice to...

Is light a wave or particulate: discuss for a century or two. Newton, Huygens, Young, Einstein, and many many more have all had a go at it. The accepted answer is that its sort of a bit of both - a particle that behaves like a wave. Fire the photon torpedos, Mr Sulu. Take us out of here...