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I tend to just take the tools I need, rather than all of them.

Sorry to be boring but it's always been perfectly possible to make a straight cut with a tracksaw, without any sort of special table. If...

I’m a hobbyist but have made a fair few kitchen and bathroom cabinets using the system. It makes life very easy. For a professional for...

Right. Thanks for that. Seems to be several systems mentioned there, all competing for attention. Are they relevant to the typical...

Is it? Why? 96/94mm means to me the finished size of sawn 4" timber for a lot of purposes. Hence 2x4" comes out as 44x94mm ish if you...

The basic trad bench is a bit like an anvil. Whatever other work you hope to do it starts with rough metal/wood on an anvil/bench. It is...

Nothing horrendous about them at all. Sellers says "Stanley actually introduced a plastic handle in the late 60's that is extremely...

I have a Stanley 3 with plastic handles. o_O Actually it's a top quality little plane and you'd hardly notice that they are plastic...

Did you learn that at the school of hard knots ? Is that my coat...

2 Ds in twaddle. :rolleyes: They work but they don't work well. That's why the Stanley/Bailey design has dominated the market since it...

MFT and trad workbench are completely different things. MFT for use with power tools and sheet material and not much use for trad work...

And "knotting".

Thanks. Come to think - having the 2x4" on top would be good but have to be bolted through. Or perhaps 2x2" top and bottom bolted...

Looking to make up a van ramp (Fiat Doblo Cargo) to load and unload a combi machine 360kg Would doubled up shuttering ply on 2no 2x4"s...

Common practice. If it's only a few thou you may not have to plane the whole piece just take off the visible snipe