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I've posted this before: a Bob Wearing tip? On the safety stick propelling the wood into the blade, cut a 'Vee' into the 'top' of the...

As Recipio says... "A birdsmouth pushstick is not ideal as the wood can lift as you push it into the cut. A homemade 'L' shaped ply jig...

I'm 30 years using a tablesaw and no injuries so far. A few danger points are : 1 Cutting thick boards over 2" especially Iroko. The...

I use the same basic shape, very slightly longer overall, and with a bit more of an elongated 'nose' Instead of a pin, mine have a thin...

Oh! Insert embarrassed emoji... Sorry, another million wasted electrons.

Whoa! Ensure your thicknesser will cut and feed a strip that thin without something making a loud, expensive noise, AND clear the...

A tip worth passing on given to me by Charlie Malia, my woodwork mentor in the Shipwright's shop in HMS St Angelo in the 70s... He had...

A plastic cyclone from Temu fixed on top of a 50 litre blue plastic food drum, odd lengths of 50mm -ish flexi pipe from the tip sucked...

No-one has mentioned a router and 45 degree chamfer bit? As said above, identical lengths are paramount so if the stock is wide enough...

A 2B pencil. Harder pencil marks can be a bu##er to remove.

I've got a small morticer, Used it for one job. It all depends on what you want to make. You say you have hand tools, Use a pillar...

I would be tempted by T916B with either the 1/4" or 1/2" shank just based on the fact you can do a small chamfer with a large cutter but...

I had just this problem when for 15 years I lived in SW France until I took a £5 monthly subscription to 'Tunnel Bear', a very simple...

One of the cheapest yet most useful things I have is a clear plastic draughtsman's 45 degree square measuring about 10" along the...

Apropos of post 45 above... Education teaches you that a tomato is a fruit but common sense tells you it doesn't belong in a fruit salad.