Recent content by Marischal Ellis

To all, I have just found out the internet has come back on in the house. It has been off for a few days but everything else has been a bit queer as well for a bit. A real nuisance. My reply has been long in coming to everyone, so thank you everyone. A lot of good food for thought here. The...

Good afternoon to all, I am very much out of date or knowledge now (20 years on), but..... last year I made an external milk box to stop our milk being pinched, more a nuisance than anything else, 500mm x 220mm x 400mm approx size l x w x h. with hinged lid. and sits on bricks. Ext .ply was...

Well the answer from above tells it all I am sure. I was going to write an alarm would be essential.

F W Woolworths post was period.

Hi Im going to read and follow this with interest. What works for some doesnt necessarily work for others...I have always wondered about what is and so on. Got really sore bits at the moment. Got sore joints but Doctor says sorry. Best wishes to all.

Depends on where exactly it is . Looks like the new town area so may be listed. If, a big if , if you can find anyone in the LA to speak with the conservation section should be able to give a guarded answer. Frame taken out and treated as said by Mark it will be good for a good long while. The...

We do this all the time north of the border or at least we used to. I am sure someone will come along with a full understanding......I am out of date now. but it would have been normal, anything else would have been wrong. Insulation messed everything up.new rethink now essential. Best wishes...

Not Sapele but something beginning with B. Memory failing me. Someone will come along.

The advice from simoncmason is top rate and excellent to follow that; guide book. Gloves, goggles, really wetting the stone is most important as you dont want to suck water out of the mortar, nice to use, better than cement mix, colour agent is good when mixed and you get dark to lighter so you...

Good luck. It almost requires a bench to build a bench. Many years ago I bolted the horiz rails and the end frames both vert and horiz. Many years ago but it is still tight today. Much talk of quality benches and so on but they really are there to be worked worked on so good luck.

Add yes to 'Flashband'. Had a soft wood table 'x' frame picnic table I made and it lasted nearly 30 years from tantalised wood.The top not so good as it was r/w with 'cuprinol'. The legs did rot up inside so damage was not seen. Left out all year...its wet and cold up here. If it lasts 25 -30...

clamps rather than vices?

You maybe interested that Linseed oil used to be used exclusively in the fishing industry were the plain look (or tar) was all there was. Used (almost exclusively) in Norway to very good effect. Was the mainstay of joiners giving something a rub, glazing beads or tool handles. Boat hulls were...

Sycamore? or as it used to be called in Scotland Plain probably because it is mostly plain looking hence good cooking things.

It may be possible to put brass dowel pins (nails) in to the plane and 'new' shaped side piece of steel /iron and join the scribed meeting edges using a thin line of metal weld type paste. Best not to do too much as it becomes what is or was not. Total restoration is not best. Flat planing...