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Don't mix family and work, especially for big jobs like this. And you'll be on call forever if the slightest thing goes wrong

After a few weeks busy with other things, I finally got a few hours to see if I can dial in perfect 90. Still not having much luck, not sure what I'm doing wrong, so I'll seek an alternative to a perfect shooting board. I'll try my hand at planing to a scribed line or maybe even the Paul...

I haven't had a chance to respond in full to all the useful advice received so I'll add some quick brief comments. The wood I tested with most was 1cm thick Sapele I think - the curls were coming off very fine and I could crush to dust with my fingers. It was out of square as if the fence...

From the many YouTube tutorials I've seen, a shooting board should be a quick project that a relatively inexperienced woodworker can do. But I am struggling with getting square ends and am on the verge of throwing out my 3rd attempt. For some reason, I just can't get it to be square after...

Looks great! Share some details :) what did you do to tune it up?

Absolutely amazing work! What tools do you pack in it? I'd be interested to know your 'essential' tools because I definitely need something like this!

Looks fantastic, the lid doesn't look out of place although it's worth experimenting with slimmer ones. How did you find working with that wood species? I have similar offcuts that someone threw in for free and find it quite prone to tearout.

Nice buy 👍 Would love to hear your thoughts after using for a few weeks as I am considering treating myself to one of these as well

Looks like a leak from above to me...very similar event at my parent's house, except it was water from their bathroom damaging the kitchen ceiling. The leak doesn't have to be very obvious either, a small continuous leak can cause something like this - water always finds a way out. In their case...

How close did you get to no light showing at all? I've often asked myself the same question as you did in your first post and struggled to get there.

My space is shared with other items and I have just enough space for a workbench and collection of hand tools. I don't use any power tools for woodworking. There are doses of ripping and cross cutting but timewise, very small compared to resawing. Takes a while to get through the pieces and...

As I don't have space for power tools, I do all my sawing by hand. Recently I have been resawing oak and sapele and noticed dust settling all over so I'm worried about breathing it in. How worried do I need to be about saw dust from hand saw? I see in the US they have box fans and you can...

Frankly I refer Reddit to this forum. The endless and pointless arguing is very off putting.

I'm sure it would be more than adequate. But given the price difference it doesn't make sense for me

Great, thanks Brian!