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The British company to be found Via the link below apparently supplies Morse taper cleaners. Personally I would use a strip of wet and dry paper (say 600 grit) fixed to a male taper in a spiral with space between each turn using a spot of superglue to fix it at each end, and use this, with a...

The problem with deep cutting is that the feed speed is usually greatly reduced because of the increased load on the saw blade, this reduces the chip thickness being taken by each tooth, the result is that instead of having a cutting action the teeth now operate with a scraping action and this...

Andy Pullen's photo's show how it should be done correctly. It is better to machine the tenon in one pass by mounting a rebating block above the moulding cutterblock with a suitable spacer between them. This ensures that there will be no variation in the tenons. The spelching is usually...

Hi Selly, The Health and Safety site (HSE) can be very useful for information on setting and operating most woodworking machinery. The following link should should give you the required details http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis31.htm Hope this helps Dan[/url]

When using a handsaw (panel saw or crosscut) to deep cut timber most people do not maintain the same angle when cutting but change it by raising or lowering the saw handle as they find that the saw cuts more easily and faster by doing so. this same principle can also be applied to deep cutting...