Recent content by Peterthegardener

I think that woodskin is quite glossy, it produces a very durable, slightly flexible coat. The rubbing strakes in the photo are white oak so you can see it produces quite a golden colour

I’ve done a fair bit on my river boat and I reckon you have 2 options. Resin covered over with many coats of yacht varnish. A few coats of West epoxy well washed to remove surface amines ( the blush will otherwise prevent the varnish from hardening). A good yacht varnish with as many coats as...

If you have got access to a simple Router Table & fence then I prefer to use a slot cutting router bit rather than a narrow straight router bit. For 2 reasons, you are less likely to break the bit, and it is possible to collect most of the dust with a shop vac connected to the fence. It is...

Thanks everyone for your encouragement. Yesterday I went to watch another woodworker using a planer (my dad) and asked a few questions about technique. Then I put my glue-ups over the jointer and I got a very acceptable result. I think I had been unnessecarily worrying. The bad news however...

For my next project (a door frame on the boat I'm rebuilding) I needed thicker stock than I had in my store. I needed a finished 2"x2.5" so I took pairs of 3" wide oak boards that were reasonably flat and ran them through the thicknesser and glued them up in pairs to give me the desired...

I have a workshop in a single garage. Here I prepare the timber I am using to re-fit an old boat, I'm using oak and exterior hardwood plywood. I use a 12" bandsaw (JET), an Axi table saw (TS200), an old PT and a homemade router cabinet. To collect dust I started with a Wickes vac then added an...

Find a copy of "Boat Interior Construction" by Michael Naujok, the look may be dated for what you want but the construction techniques should still apply.

Thank you both for these suggestions. Jdeacon, my uncertainty is that Yale specify a minimum door thickness of 38mm for their 1109 cylinder. Admittedly this looks to be overkill, but the cylinder does measure 29mm from the back face of the front, so I am still not going to fit this in a 25mm...

I am restoring an old river boat. The previous owner fitted a standard 2" thick domestic door to the main cabin, but there is not enough room to open a 24" door because of a floor step so the door is divided into 2 parts which means I get 20" usable opening when both leaves are open. I am hoping...

I am re-fitting an old river boat and planing to instal new lockers (cupboards). The structure is exterior ply and I want to frame the cupboard doors with hardwood (oak) to hide the edges. My plan was to produce the framing from strips of planned oak, e.g. from a 3/4" x 3/4" section to route out...

It looks like a Bandsaw Box to me?

The sections I will be planing for this project are mostly less than 2" wide, I just fancied being able to do a little hobby furniture making in the future. The are a couple of DeWalt machines on eBay at the moment, a DW50 and a DW1150, are these the sort of machine that would be quieter that I...

I need to process about 100m of sawn oak into PAR to make edgings and framings for the project boat I am refitting. I have a limited budget for woodworking tools and I would like to get a P/T for no more than £250 if possible. I have looked at the Woodstar PT85 which fits this budget as a new...

Hi I too recently bought a bandsaw (JET JWBS 12OB) although mine was nearer 20yrs old, and like you I promptly needed a new tyre which the manufacturers no longer supply. So after recommendations on this site I went to Bandsaw-Tire-Warehouse on eBay - I paid about £29 including postage and I was...

Thanks for all of these replies, I have ordered a pair from Bandsaw Tyre Warehouse (eBay) and I'll see how they go