Recent content by PaulArthur

I’ve got mixed feeling about it. I work in the technology sector, and when I am in our head office, the norm these days is suits without ties for the men, while ladies’ attire hasn’t really changed over the last decade. A large amount of my work is done from home though, where I wear anything...

I came into a little inheritance money this year and so decided I’d buy something to remind me of my grandmother. I had this beauty made for me by Konrad Sauer in Canada. It’s absolutely astonishing.

The Jericho place is at the tip in Sutton. It’s recycled wood though. I’m in Acocks Green, so just down the road. Let me know if you need anything.

Totally possible, but the Leigh shanks are 8mm for strength. The pins at their narrowest here look about half that.

Don’t think so - the bit would have to be the shape of the pins, and that would be an absolutely tiny shank in this case. They’re also not really regular enough.

Are you building the industrial desk from his video series? I’m just finishing off one of those for my son - the base and drawer is all done, I’m just waiting for the finish to dry properly on the top before I put it together and let it loose. I tried a year or so ago with that ebony song...

I think they realise death with quickly follow any rowdy behaviour around the new cabinet…

I needed a cabinet to hide all the kids’ toys. Came up with an idea for the doors and went from there I picked something that I thought might be quite quick because if the repeatable actions, but they actually ended up taking me ages! I’m almost happy with the result, and the toys are gone.

The seller of that book has ended that listing and relisted for over £100!!

I had a low angle jack plane that was a factory second - it’s hopeless. The mouth isn’t ground straight and so it’s impossible to get a straight shaving. Everything ends up planed on one side only. I’m now trying to decide whether to go at it with a file to see if I can improve it, or just...

Get yourself on the mailing lists of GJWisdom and John Pye. Those seem best from experience.

Thank you. I was really pleased with them. I’m just sad I don’t have the space to make one for me and my workshop! That haul was £700 two years ago, but I had another one last month - £1200 for this lot (and more). It was a stack of teak, sapele and Japanese oak, with a few massive boards of...

I think mine were about 18mm

I keep my eye out for auctions of wood, sadly from joinery workshops that have closed for a multitude of reasons. That lead me to get a huge load of beech for very little money a couple of years ago. I used the beech to make two chests as to chests for my children, on the understanding that I...

Thanks Sadly, I think Covid has cause him to close down. There’s been no movement on his website in a couple of years and a message at the top saying he’s not taking orders.