Recent content by houtslager

Lovely bit of kit,well done sur 👍👍👍

Welcome to the nuthouse Tony. With who did you start with in Islington? When I left the army in 1985 I worked there for antiques dealer in his workshop with an ancient french polisher name of Bill. Next door were 2 brothers dealing and restoring antiques with their dad supervising the...

Welcome to the nuthouse, glad to have a "sunnier" input te CNC,laser cutters and ancillary equipment. I too am a "departee" from UK, I left the forces in 95 and saw them there was little future in hanging around. I was in Germany and Holland for 28 years, and now moved to eastern France, near...

Wanted a vacuum clamp for the Festool system, I missed the note stating that this would be discontinued 🤬😭, so if any one has this kicking around their shop let me know please. Karl

Looking neat, like the upper layout for the glass👍 made a few of these doors in my youth 🤓

Welcome to another nuthouse JJ, as 1 Irish expat in France to another, where the pineapple are you ? I'm near neufchateau/Chaumont Karl

Yeah right ! 😈🤣

Well here's my penny's worth. I've built too many benches in my woodbutchery life and seen some wonders and horror story benches. One has to work out what type of work you want the bench to do, 100 % handwork,or 100% powertool use. Or like most here a bit of both. There is a lass on utube in...

As a professional , and a user of forms of shellac for the last 40 years, my favourite manufacturer was an old firm in bermondsey London, sadly no longer trading, I then moved on to W s Jenkins in Tottenham. There one can buy everything required to restore, and finish antiques and modern...

Nice work :)(y)(y)(y)

Hope you got a load of cash, as I was looking for the same machine for years. Finally scored one used of course but we'll looked after, but it cost 12k now moving it to my old factory building in France this winter, now looking for a 5m logosol bandsaw mill.

Well your miles away from me, I've snatched a place in Haute-Marne a rural village with nowt - no cafe or bakery 😭 nearest being in Neufchateau 19km north me. House sounds like mine, a1950's in need of total re wiring, plumbing, plastering and painting. What made me want it was the 9500sqft...

Hasn't he popped off this mortal coil ?

Well I snapped one a couple of years ago, and after doing some research the Wadkin version is the original patent and they sold loads to America in the early 19th c and then Emmett bought the patent and selling rights in America. Wadkin gave up making vices in the end of the century and stuck to...

Yep and the source is only 45 km upstream. Biggest shame about the river is no decent edible fish to fish for. 🤔☹️