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Hi - I've not been following the forum for a few years as I had a bout of someone-filled-the-garage-with-junk-from-the-house-and-now-I-can't-get-to-my-bandsaw, followed by a stretch of trying to build a built-in wardrobe, followed by the birth of our first child 16 or so months ago. (And I say...

I've just noticed a problem with my table saw (An Axminster TS-200 that's about four years old, so without the modern refinements) - it seems to have developed a bit of an alignment problem that seems to stem from some wobble in the arbor*. I took the blade off to investigate, and found that...

We've been redecorating recently and figured that it was a good opportunity to tile our downstairs halls, which we've been looking forward to for a while. So we lifted a bit of carpet to check the existing floor, measured everything, worked out what we'd need and went and bought a load of tiles...

We're redecorating, so I took the opportunity while the carpet was up on the stairs to run some screws down through the treads into the risers, which has stopped the annoying creaking on a few of the steps. Unfortunately, while going up and down the stairs and rocking from side to side to see if...

At work we recently moved into a new office, which was celebrated by everyone getting actually decent chairs that normal people can sit on for more than fifteen seconds without developing back-ache. Unfortunately my neck-ache persisted, and I eventually worked out that it was because I was...

I've recently come across a bargain-price second-hand cheapo lathe (seems to be the same as the current Clarke CWL12D, but with a different model number), with the thinking that I didn't know whether I'd like it or be any good at it, and I didn't want to spend hundreds of pounds to find out. And...

I know how you guys love sharpening threads. ;-) A long while ago I bought myself a cabinet scraper in a local hardware shop - I forget the brand. I took it home and played with it a bit and basically got nowhere, and put it down to my lack of a hard enough burnisher (in fact, I was going off...

I've been asked if I can try and fix this library chair that my parents own. It's one of those ones where the back folds down and it turns into a little set of steps. The bottom step on this one is held in place by four housing joints and - thanks to the arguably kind of thoughtless decorative...

Since I've seen some mention of - and regret at missing - these on here in the past: I didn't notice a mention in their flyer or on their website, but my local (Grantham) Lidl had something like fifteen sets of digital callipers in stock yesterday evening. Maybe your local does as well!

I'm making my girlfriend an auxiliary table for her desk, since she has one of those desks with a keyboard tray which is annoyingly wide enough to get in the way but not wide enough to use the mouse to the side of the keyboard, and she'd like to. I have the whole thing done apart from one last...

Bamboo whistles! Happy new year to the lot of you! ;-) Made from the 2011 growth of the bamboo from our garden, harvested around March 2012 and dried in the shed/garage since then. They work surprisingly well! (Not that I need any whistles, but that's not the point at all. I can almost hear...

Not very woodworky, I know, but you guys are a mine of knowledge and I figure that there's a bit of a crossover interest with workshop vacuums... The one ongoing argument I have with my girlfriend revolves around vacuum cleaners. For some time before we got together I managed with a...

I'm trying to make an edition of this game as a gift, veneering the shapes onto wooden tiles. It's a print-and-play game, so normally it'd be printed out onto labels and stuck down to cardboard, but wood is obviously much nicer! I've played around with a series of punches which do a...

I saw a few people recently saying how the Trend T4 was basically a shoddy copy of the Bosch POF500A, and the Bosch was more reliable. I was sitting here at the time thinking "yes, yes, I'm very happy with my little Bosch router", so typically it decided to break on me in such a way that I don't...

Rutlands is offering their Dakota jig for £50, supposedly just for today: https://www.rutlands.co.uk/cgi-bin/psPr ... ?promo=103 Is this as identical to the Axminster own-brand dovetail jig as it looks from the photos? I mean, aside from being more blue? (And, I guess: leaving aside the...

This project has been on the go for a few months now, thanks to getting distracted by a busy period at work, another non-woodworking project, making an MDF dog-head silhouette (...) and so on. It's nearing completion, though, hopefully if I post about it it'll shame me into finishing it! As I...

I noticed that next week, Lidl is selling a small circular saw, with a max. cutting depth of 25mm. The link is below, although I gather that it randomly works or doesn't work depending on whether you've given them your postcode in the past and/or whether it's sold in your area...

I recently purchased a second-hand dw876 for which a previous owner had misplaced the table! Anyway, I can bolt a bit of plywood to the trunnions - which are still in place and perfectly functional - but if I want to retain the ability to tilt the table with the blade installed, the new table...

My previous making-things experience had mostly been for utilitarian stuff, but recently I've been trying my hand at making indoors furniture. The main problem I've come across is, I suspect, fairly common - finding the intersection between things I like and things my girlfriend also likes! For...

First off, there's not a chance I'd monkey around in there myself, we'll be getting a proper electrician in, so don't worry about that. I'll cheerfully replace sockets and switches, but I know my limits! (I have a reasonable grasp of the principles of electricity itself, but from an entirely...