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I have read quite a bit of bad press about Rutlands products but this looks like good value! Any thoughts on their kit? Mitre Gauges | Next Day Delivery

Our rental property was an E without much scope to get it to C unless we invested in expensive upgrades, so we put it up for sale. My thinking was that the housing market will be flooded with these inefficient old properties in a couple of years and their value will start dropping sooner rather...

Great video here by Steve Maskery, which I'll be following to the letter this weekend (y)

Thanks for the advice so far, very helpful! Both blades looked fine when using the little height gauge but there was at least 10mm movement when 'rolling' a batten along the infeed table. I set the first blade to about 7mm across the cutter width then found the second blade was also 7mm so I...

Just watched this Peter Parfitt video on how to set the blades. It now looks like I also need to check the beds as well as the rollers, which one do I need to do first or does it not matter? When feeding the thicknesser, it's a tight fit to get underneath the first roller. However, the cutter...

Yes, I did a bit of work last week and had the same issue without the plank

Hi all, I'm getting quite a bit of snipe on both ends of an old oak (?) stair tread despite using a long plank for a base. It's a Metabo HC 260 and the base plank is approx. 5' long (1500mm). I don't think the plank is moving but it is possible, should this be clamped to the cast iron lifting...

I thought the same! Couldn't believe how much the little offcuts of hardwood were...

I went today and enjoyed myself, it was unbelievably busy when I turned up just after lunch but it eased up later on. Bring food, I rarely leave anything but £8.95 for a manky chicken and leek pie, cold chips and colder gravy was just too much. The garden peas were quite nice though. It was the...

Thanks Triton, much appreciated...

Thanks for this, I might try a mitred box with the grain flowing around each corner...

...well, practice makes for a slight improvement in my case! I bought a Metabo 260 planer thicknesser a few weeks ago and decided to spend yesterday afternoon learning how to use it. I practiced on some solid oak kitchen doors that we saved from our old kitchen, which were made by a local...

I thought the same earlier today but on a turntable so I could turn the Disc to face me.

Nice and simple (y) A classic case of overthinking things on my part...

I like the flip-top idea but I don't have the space for a mobile cart just yet. I want to mount the sander on a sliding tray/drawer thing that's fixed to the top of my existing top so that it can be moved out of the way when not in use. The photo shows where it would be when stored so I can...