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I am not sure that Cedar is a good choice for windows partly for the reasons you give and whilst it is quite durable it is not particularly strong. So I would be asking why it has to be Cedar.

I have been having the occasional clear out of offcuts for several years. I put them on the sale page usually FTAG. I will be putting some more up in the spring. They are mostly oak but it depends what I have been making

Hence a cube you can suspend from a rafter or the ceiling. My bench is in the middle of the workshop so it was either dig the floor up and install some floor boxes (not ideal in a workshop), ditto but fix the outlets to the bench (not ideal as I need to move my bench) or suspend from the ceiling...

I did the seat and head rest for the one in my picture with gouges, a travisher, circular plane and sander. The legs can be done with spokeshaves. You will need a router for the leg joints but thereafter it can be done by hand which is far more satisfying, less noise and far less dust to...

I have had one of these for 20 years without burning down the workshop or blowing the system. The reason I put this down to is not good fortune, but only having two arms! With the best will in the world I cannot use more than two tools at once and in reality I only use one at a time, because...

JoshD, when you cut real wood the process of cutting releases tension in wood fibres and sometimes the piece of wood finishes up looking like a banana. I have cut pieces that bow and twist a long way 1 inch 25mm of bow and twist or more. This usually happens in large stock 50 to 100mm thick...

It would give you something to experiment with and it is easy to reduce the length of a fence and not so easy to extend it!

Also for cutting real wood you could make a short fence to attach to the Incra and also fit T Track so you can use your Jessem Clear cut rollers. Whether the Jessem rollers equate to a shaw guard, I think is difficult. They would keep the stock down on the table to stop it becoming a projectile...

For effective dust extraction the issue is how much air needs to pass along the duct to effectively move the shavings and dust and keep it airborne until it reaches you filters. In other words you need a flow of air to keep a shaving in the air otherwise gravity does its thing. You are...

There are a few in Nottingham. The broadest choice is Brooks Bros Timber, Hardwoods, Softwoods, Mouldings, Doors, Decking Suppliers

The cross sectional area is 156% but you also need to factor in the reduction in flow caused by the reducer etc and the practical difference is that nearly double the amount of air will flow per minute or hour through the 125mm duct as will in the 100mm. If it is a branch it can be even more.

Just as a quick rule of thumb. People look at this choice and say well 125mm is only 25mm bigger than 100mm so it is only a a quarter more air that can pass along the duct. That is wrong it is very nearly double the amount of air.

The latter. Keep the ducting as large as possible as long as possible.

I chose not to have a clean sweep in my Incra set up because I was concerned at airflow to the router motor. Instead I enclosed the router in a box of my own making (guaranteed leaky!) and provided an amount of venting against the underside of the table. I also have 100mm extract port and a...

I am not sure you can put Incra in the "idiots" class