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Hello Paul, I have just recently got a lot of maple and because of the hot weather, we have in Germany currently, I stored it for some days under a plastic tarp to protect it from drying to fast before I found the time to seal the ends of the logs. Under the tarp it got obviously rather damp...

The left one is made from plum, the right one from cherry. After drilling, shaping and finishing they were carved with a dremel, using some bits from Mick Hanbury http://www.mickhanbury.com/MHC01-CuttingBits.html . Uli

Hello Paul, I often turn vases to put a glass tube into. I first rough down the wood to the required diameter and the use a forstner bit with a 20cm-extension to drill a hole for the tube about one or two millimetres wider than the tube to allow for wood movement. That done I finish the form...

Hello Pekka, gratulation - I have been very impressed by your self built lathe. But I have a question referring to your chisels, too: I am facing the same problem - I have gained recently some old stanley chisels with composite handles, which I should like to replace by new ones turned from...

Hello Lee, the BAS 450 is no more produced and Elektra Beckum was meanwhile sold to Metabo. But Metabo will still sell all spare parts for the Elektra Beckum bandsaws and you can download a manual for the BAS 450 on the Metabo homepage: http://fc.zindel.de/_ebeckum/_com/_en/_en02hoba.html...

Hallo Brian, gratulation - that looks splendid and really not as if it were your first project! I have experienced similar problems with the small range of woods and dimensions commercially available, if you can't thickness the necessary quantities from solid wood yourself. That's the reason...

Hallo Ike, as for the planer thicknesser I cannot say, where they are produced. I only know, that the planer tables are produced in the far east. I should believe that the planers are at least asssembled still in Germany. The complaints because of quality issues mainly referred to the Basato...

Hello Jeb, the TKU is a tablesaw which is built more for rough cutting on building sites by carpenters. I doubt very much that you will be content with the precision of cuts when you are planning to make furniture. Furthermore Scheppach is just loosing its good recommendation in German...

Hi Gabriele, gratulations to this nice tenon saw. Just some days ago I purchased a similar one - a Disston #5 with brass back. It was not in such a good condition as yours: But after a bit of work with steel wool, polishing paste and on the grip scraper and sandpaper and finally a touch up...

Hi all, I have been following this thread with special interest, since I have just yesterday finished a small bowsaw for sawing the curved parts of some stools. I am quite happy, how it came out, but one important question is still left for me: What number of teeth per inch would the...

Hallo Alan, if I understand your description right, it should be possible to use the Scheppach chipper on any tablesaw with a 30mm-arbor, if you get the special elongated nut from Scheppach, which you mentioned, and if this fits on your tablesaw, too. Is that right? If so and if it's a nut with...

I own a tewntyfive year old swedish Luna L18, later produced under the brand name of Lini, currently - and still mostly unchanged - as Ejca . It's a wonderful and sturdy machine! Ulrich

Hallo together, thank you for your nice coments. As for the wood: You were right - it's a piece of maple scrapwood. I should have liked the candle holder to have a slightly stronger curve but the board was only about 40 mm thick (50 mm would have been better) and the candle holder had to be...

A very beautiful candle holder! Thank you, Adam, for the inspiration. It came just right - no, not for Christmas but for my mother's birthday, which is just lurking around the corner as well as the birthday of my wife a week later. So there is still much to do, until I can think much about...

Derek Brown from Clico Tooling Ltd. has meanwhile answered my report about my problems with the Clifton 420 shoulder plane: They will replace it free of charge as soon as possible - I think that's a kind of customer service worth mentioning here... :D Ulrich

Thankyou for your advice - as I conclude from your comments it seems as if the - in comparison for example LV - high prices of Clifton planes are not totally matched by their quality... Anyway: I sent a fax to Clico Tools yesterday voicing my concerns about the lack of quality in this special...

Hello Tony, sorry for the large pictures - I noticed that they were too large only when I had already posted. Most of the faults really are more of aesthetic than functional concern but at least the protruding pin and the crowned foot of the levercap will both affect the performance of the...

Hallo, relying on the high reputation of Clifton planes I recently purchased a Clifton 420 shoulderplane. But after the first more detailed look at this plane I am rather disappointed with the quality I received. Just a few examples: The lever cap shows a lot of blowholes – probably not...

Hi Frank, I think a rounded bam would feel more comfortable, too. For this reason I rounded the edges at my self-made marking gauge in the japanese style and I like the soft feel when using it. Ulrich

Right for the thyme, Tim - we have lot's of it in our garden. As for your question, Neil: The salad servers really are about hand size - 100 x 200 mm. The piece of scrap wood was about 40 mm thick. On the bandsaw I sawed a slighty S-curved form. On the side, where you grasp the servers...