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Hello, My wife wants a new kitchen, preferably while she is still alive. Consequently, the idea of me building one is a non-starter. We are considering a B&Q kitchen. My question is, has anyone else in the Devon are had one installed by B&Q? Did the installation go well? Have you any...

Hello, Both my pairs of glasses are up for replacement so I am considering having my eyes zapped with a laser. Has anyone out there had experience of this procedure good or bad? Regards, Peter.

Hello, I have just tried to undo the six screws on the cutter-head. They are incredibly tight and I cannot undo them. I spoke to Axminster and they admitted they've had a few problems with the screws. The only thing that can be done is to send the unit back to Axminster and have them deal...

Hello, I am going to make an 8ft American pool table. The slates have arrived and I wish to rest them on a table made from a torsion box so as to keep them flat. The torsion box will be built on the leveled slates that are presently lying on my workshop floor. There are three slates each of...

Hello, Does anyone know of a supplier of quarter-sawn oak in the Devon area? Regards, Peter.

Hello, I own a plastic handled Stanley 13-050 and am trying to plane a 9mm slot in some oak - along the grain. The blade has been sharpened to a angle of 35 degrees. My problem is that I cannot to adjust the blade depth correctly. Either the blade digs into the wood, or the blade skates over...

Hello, One of you kindly mentioned a very good cookery forum - see url below. An excellent site. However I was a little disconcerted by a thread on the subject of "Toad in the hole". The recipe is pretty standard. The trouble is, a moderator moved the thread to the "Ethnic food" forum...

Dear All, There is a rumour of a bonus and I would like to buy a really good cross-cut handsaw. Perhaps 22 inches long (I am vertically challenged). Preferably British, though I am willing to be persuaded otherwise. Mainly to use on oak. I want a new one. The only contender I've found so...

Dear All, I realise I should have bought a Boggs spokeshave from Lie-Nielson for approximately £100, but I cannot justify paying that sort of money for the minimal use I would make of one. So I bought a Stanley 151 spokeshave (curved version) and expected to do a bit of tuning. Got it home...

Hello, I have just had to switch off my oil-fired Rayburn after realising that both it and my oil-fired central heating system have guzzled their way through £400 of oil in two months. I live in a four bedroomed house, not Buckingham Palace. I moved into this house in August, thus my...

I have just taken delivery of a Primus Reform smooth plane. Does this count as a gloat? http://www.fine-tools.com/G301047.htm I think this is going to be a fabulous plane once I get to know it properly. I tried it "out of the box" on my beech workbench-top and the wood shines! The 50...

About ten years ago, I found an old handsaw in a corner of my workshop - left there by the previous house-owner. It looks almost exactly like a Disston No.7: http://www.disstonianinstitute.com/7page.html However, the one I have only has two fixings on the handle plus the emblem stamp. The...

I want to make some Adirondack chairs. My local wood place has a load of 1 inch elm that looks rather good. Is elm suitable for garden furniture? And what finish would be best to show-off the wood? Regards, Peter.

Dumb question; how do you finely adjust blade depth on a plane like this? Regards, Peter

My second post as a newbie. Well, as I said in another thread. I have recently moved into a larger house with a workshop in the garden. The workshop is an agricultural building measuring 40 feet by 20 feet with an en suite toilet (very important). I placed my work-mate in the middle and it...