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Hello all, I'm looking to sell on my complete collection of the Workshop Essentials DVDs. I'm asking for £50 (plus postage where applicable), as this is half of what the full set would cost new. All discs are in very good working order. No damage to the cases. Collection also available from...

Hi all, Well, I haven't been around here much for a long while but when I did come back not long ago, I was quietly pleased to see there is now a sub-forum for metalworking, as this might kind of tie-in with my day job! I've spent the last couple of years making packing cases for a company...

This is something I was working on a few weeks ago and, even though there are still parts I need to finish off, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post it on the forum. The main cabinet is made from 18mm WBP exterior-grade ply and, in order to fit a home-made router table to the right-hand...

I came up with this idea a few weeks ago while staring blankly at my machine (Axminster AW106PT) while it was set up in thicknessing mode. Like several others on the market, this model is one where you need to remove the main fence from the top of the machine in order to access the thicknesser...

Hi guys, I mentioned this recently on another forum but, I'm even more surprised to see here, on this forum, that no mention appears to have been made of Steve Maskery's latest DVDs in the locally-acclaimed Workshop Essentials series - covering the use, configuration and safe operation of table...

Recently, I asked for some advice on making a ledge-and-brace gate with tongue-and-groove boards that would need to fit in to a tapered opening, where the distance between the walls increased by 20mm from ground level up to the 2m mark, which is approximately where the top of this gate would...

Hi all, I'm planning to make a tongue and groove gate fairly soon. I've got all the wood and the PTGV boards. It'll be a fairly traditional ledge and brace design (no stiles) and either side I'll have two wall plates (94x44mm) with stops to be planted on later. Something like this: I...

While I haven't taken as many WIP photos as I would've done for almost any previous project, I have mostly been documenting this one in video format, as part of an on-going YouTube 'experiment' (I will post here once the first video on this one is up). I recently bought a job lot of 3x3in...

It's a new year, I've got a little bit of money to spare and I'm going to try and make several improvements to my workshop that I've been planning for the last three-years now. Namely, this involves fitting a suspended floor overheard, insulating the roof and then replacing the up-and-over...

Hi guys, For a long time, I've suspected that the bearing just above the chuck in my Clarke pillar drill may be shot. It rattles a bit while it's running and it only started doing this about a year after I bought it (...I think I've had it for four-years, now! :oops:). It doesn't seem to...

Hi guys, In my on-going search for a cheaper supply of abrasives for the Work Sharp 3000, I've finally settled on Mirka Gold, which I bought earlier this week. Unlike regular aluminium oxide discs (red), this stuff seems to last much longer. I've reground a load of old chisels and tackled a few...

Hi guys, As some of you may recall from almost a year ago, I bought an old cast iron benchtop mortiser (labelled "Smiths Woodworker"; very similar to Multico in appearance) off eBay (barely visible in the shot below... :oops:). Overall, I'm still impressed and very pleased with it - it...

Hi guys, I know I'm not the only one who using a sliding compound mitre saw for cross-cutting. I'm not a great fan of radial arm saws but, one advantage they have that I like is that you can 'lock' the saw on. With a mitre saw, you have to release the trigger each time you stop and, when you've...

Hi guys, So, I've got this small curved-fronted cabinet I made a few months ago... (Minus a pair of pulls. :oops:) You can probably see it in the first photo but, the top-left hand corner of the door sticks out slightly. With the main panel being laminated, it has sprung back slightly :(...

Hi guys, Anyone got any tips for removing bobbin sleeves from the Jet JBOS-5 spindles? Bobbins larger than 16mm aren't a problem, where you remove a nut on top of the spindle and the sleeve slides off easily. On the smaller ones though (6mm, 12mm and 16mm), they're held in place with a small...

It's been a while since my last WIP so, I thought I'd get the ball rolling again with this one. It's going to be a side table, made in a similar style to an arm chair I've just finished gluing up at college: (Trust me - it is somewhere underneath all those cramps!! :D) For those who didn't...

Hi guys, Something I've not come across before is a narrow hanging plate - for 19mm thick sides on a wall cabinet, for example. Alright, Rutlands do currently have these Brusso ones on sale - that's a bit more than I'd like to spend. I guess they don't have to be solid brass; plated might do...

Hi guys, At college, I've almost finished an arm chair made from English ash with an English walnut seat. Here's a photo from several weeks ago, with most of the components dry-fitted (no finish), without the arms: You should be able to see there's a lot of curved work involved and, where a...

Hi guys, I've been working on a key cabinet, made from white and brown oak (something like the drawing below, with dovetailed corners). You've hopefully noticed :wink: that the cabinet has a slight curve to its front. It's not much but, I think it's enough to add interest. Anyway. I've...

What is it about Mondays?!? :x Admittedly, I was rushing, as I had to go out this morning (just got back) and I wanted to get the timber planed up before I left. Over the weekend, I was resawing some oak and I think that just about finished off the 1/2" x 3tpi blade I had been using (it was...