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Thanks for all your replies. Guess I'll have to get the punch out. Mike O.

Thanks for all your replies. I always work in millimetres. I guess the skill is in knowing how to deal with any discrepancies. Mike O.

How accurate is accurate. I'm having a great deal of frustration getting rid of those tenths. I come from an engineering background where the tolerance was one or two tenths. Aaaaaaggghh. Mike O.

Can anyone recommend a framing square that IS square. I'm on my fourth ?? Mike O.

Many thanks for your help. Mike O.

I have another question about the router. How do I determine the correct speed for each bit. Is it like drill bits, the smaller the bit the faster the speed? Mike O.

Thanks gentleman for all your advice. You are correct in that this is my first encounter with this type of machine. I will proceed with caution. Mike O.

I have just bought a Bosch 1200 AE Router and I think I have misunderstood the preset depth of cut ability. Does it mean that I have to use the step buffer to set each depth required, turn off the machine between each cut, turn the step buffer to the next preset depth, then do my next cut? Many...

Thanks chaps. I can see that the quality of ply can vairy quite a bit, depending on how much you pay. So if building furniture pay for better quality, but for short lived jigs cheap will probably do. Thanks again Mykee.

Nothing in particular. It just seems that most people use plywood to make jigs and router tables etc. Mike O.

I'm confused by the different types of plywood available. Which type could I use for making simple boxes and other small projects that I see on YouTube? Mike O.

Thanks. Understood. Mykee.

Why? Mykee.

Wouldn't that be a turn-up for the books. All these years I thought he was saying banana. From the pictures it doesn't look anywhere near rich enough and I can't remember what it was for but it was cheap work. Mykee

I used to work in a shop where we had some wood that one chap referred to as banana pine. I've recently been looking to find out what it was but haven't found mention of it anywhere. Anybody ever heard of it? It was like pine but beautifully yellow with deep red in it. Mykee