Recent content by JoshD

Thanks for kind words! Yes, leather stuff is commercially viable (in a way that wood work isn't), I'm thinking about it .......

OK, OK, I am a *bit* of a scrabble nut, and scrabble boards are rather a recurring theme. Unfortunately after a third major back operation, two of them in the last 2y, my surgeon has forbidden me from woodwork; but has eventually agreed that leatherwork is ok (easier to avoid stooping, no...

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Phil, this may be a very basic question, but I couldn't quite see how to do a backing board arrangement whilst keeping it perfectly flat through seasonal humidity changes, assuming you use a single backing board of ply or MDF (and assuming you don't want a sandwich with a matching set of tiles...

I haven't posted in a long while. ive had long-standing back problems but things came to a head in the spring with an emergency procedure to keep me out of a wheelchair. Good news: as far as I can tell I'm completely unimpaired, although things won't have fully healed for a while yet. Bad...

Thanks for that. I work pretty slowly (and spend a lot of time fixing my own cock ups), so might have to write off more than half my hours!

@Peri, how do you decide your pricing? I'm guessing that if you charged even the minimum wage on actual time taken you'd price yourself out of the market ....

We honestly use the first Scrabble tabble (the walnut one) every day, sometimes more than once! It's really pretty tough! But the power squares in that one were done by lightly hand staining sycamore and they've changed colour as they've faded. V2 has coloured tulip wood veneers which will...

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I've made another Scrabble Tabble, in this one the walnut is replaced with spalted elm, and the supporting undertable is octagonal with pull out letter racks. Here's the top, with 3.2mm dowels in maple and ipe holding the pieces in place on the board (maple for power squares, ipe for the rest)...

Thanks to both ... sounds like it's pretty obscure, could be SCM by another name but not certain ...

There's a combi machine on eBay made by ESY and the vendor says he thinks it's licensed by SCM. Anybody know ESY? Particularly concerned whether quality can be regarded as same as SCM. Thanks! Josh

I think it was these https://trenddirectuk.com/trend-snap-hd1-set-trend-snappy-hex-drill-bit-set-16pc.html I do also have one collet one, but as supplied it slips in the collet. I guess tightening wouldn't be too onerous but haven't bothered

I really like hex shaft drill bits .... provided they're a single piece of metal. That means avoid Trend Snappy (although they should be commended on the accuracy of their branding: Trend Snappy bits are two pieces of metal, a hex outer and a round inner, connected by a pin; and those pins are...

... And somewhere to hide from the neighbors!