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I have glued up panels of a width of 500mm width x 12mm thickness and within 48 hours of bringing them indoors they have shrunk in width by 3mm which is good enough for what i want but they will slowly carry on shrinking for months, so if you don't want the glue lines to show then I would let...

Sounds good to me, thanks Roger.

Yes, I have not ruled out another triton but was wondering what else was out there with the same features.

Sorry, I meant raise above the table so the collet nut is accessible.

I thought about getting a router lift but surely that won't convert any router to make it adjustable from the top of the table, the triton used to lock when lifted hence you just needed to use one spanner to change cutters.

My old Triton Router is about ready for the scrapheap, it has been a good bit of it apart from all the plastic parts which are all disintegrating, I no longer can reduce or increase the speed nor can I change the cutters as easily as before as it will not raise above the table anymore, which was...

I do believe that its best to store the timber in similar conditions to what the finished item will be subjected to for a few months, that way it will only move a tad, as I had to find out the hard way. I have an Oak table with Breadboard ends that has not moved at all, I also have other Oak...

Hi Andy I like the idea using veneer, I did actually think about it but had none on hand and it was a practice project. About keeping the drawers square, they always seem to move when clamping, I wondered whether other folk used a jig of some sort, I measure across the diagonal and get it within...

Top class work. You might find some handles here http://www.inbrass.co.uk/acatalog/Brass ... Knobs.html

A friend asked me to make a box for their partner, I might add that they asked for it in November to be ready for Christmas but for health reasons it wasn't possible and I have only just finished it. They had their own design which was more like a Chest of Drawers rather than a Jewellery box...

Argus, that does help a lot thanks, I did buy a cheapish set of carving chisels only to find that they are not really what I want, what I am doing now is buying more expensive chisels as I want them and that is what is confusing me. I have been watching Chris Pye's DVD on letter carving and it...

I am starting to do some letter carving on some of my boxes and what is confusing me is the gouges and their sweep, if I were to carve the letter O an 1" diameter what sweep would i want, in other words is there any relation to sweeps and radius, I don't to go and buy every size chisel at over...

I don't know what went wrong with that post. I wanted to tell Pete that Elaine was holding an art exhibition in his neck of the woods on June 16/17 at the Attenborough nature reserve and the boxes el be there. Make sure you take your hand plane

Ian, there is nothing special about the inside its Oak