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Fair point. Which is harder to do if you are buying mail order. Or it's in some sort of packaging. To rephrase my original post: Make sure that the square you buy is square. Test it before purchase. J

Another beginner here. Please learn from my mistake. Don't buy cheap squares. If your square isn't spot on you're just going to end up wasting material, which is more expensive in the long run. Make sure that your square is actually square. This took me way too long to learn the hardway. J

I've tried workmate's, but can't seem to get on with them. Maybe I'm just using rubbish ones, but I haven't been able to get on with one yet. Will do. When I first signed up to this forum I was in Canterbury, but moved a couple of years back, hadn't realised I hadn't updated the profile on...

Well yes. But given the design of the bench is partly dependant on the intended use, having some idea of some projects I wanna make seems sensible. This is the Netherlands. Carrying stupid quantities us stuff on bikes is a national past time... J

You make a good point, maybe I'll hold off on the wonder pup things until I've proven to myself that I need them. yeah. I need to have a think about the design, but before I can do that, I need to cycle over to the wood yard and see what I can get. There's a shortage of thin material available...

Nope, wasn't planning on it, life's too short. Happy making. J

Good question. I don't have a big space, and any materials will have to be transported by me on my bike. If I'm using sheet material like plywood, I will get the wood yard to cut it down to final size. In terms of power tools I have a battery drill, and that's it. I had to leave all my tools...

That's not what you communicated. The tone of your message is one suggesting that there is no place for such things as you have not needed them in your 40 years of wood working, and because you haven't used them, noone should use them. The tone of your post is just not helpful. If what you...

Power tools? High tech tool steels? Our great grandfathers generations didn't have those, so there's clearly no need for us to have them and you should sell them all! Just because you haven't used them, doesn't mean that they don't have utility for others and the way other people work. To...

I'm looking to build a new work bench. I don't currently have a work bench, or any work holding hardware, which means that I am starting from a completely clean slate. What do people recommend as work holding on work benches? Do you have T track and associated clamps? Has anyone tried the...

Many years ago, back in the last millennium, when I was first taught the basics of using a plane in school one thing that was drilled into us was never put the plane blade side down, but always lay it on it's side. So you don't dull the blade. Watching various woodworking videos on youtube, as...

Ah, that makes a lot more sense now! thanks. J

Please excuse my ignorance. But what does that mean? Google suggests the following for a "60 1/2 low angle plane": https://www.gereedschappro.nl/artikel/1 ... -60-5.html For "block plane no9": https://www.gereedschapcentrum.nl/stanl ... -40mm.html But for no3 plane, I'm not getting a...

I left most of my tools behind when I moved, which included the cheapish B&Q's finest plane. I'm realising it's a tool I miss, but rather than just going to the local B&Q equivalent here, and dropping a small number of euros on the not quite cheapest plane they have. I'm thinking I should buy...

My drill bit storage hasn't improved. I've been pondering going for the 170 bit item linked above. But My I have a growing collection of odd shape drill bits. The 3.2mm's and the 6.4mm etc... Which don't seem to fit in with these. I'm wondering what the best solution is. It doesn't help that I...

In short. Overwhelmed. Hadn't expected the answers I got really. I had to leave most of my tools behind when I moved, so am kinda starting again from scratch. I have a very small subset of tools available for use at the local Hackerspace, but on the whole the quality is not great (I binned 2...

I would like to cut some wood to for mitring together to make a box. I'd like to cut pretty precise angles. All the angles involved are 30° or 60° or 90°. I bought a cheapish mitre saw (something like this one: https://amzn.to/2uEAXIw (tho I think mine was draper brand), and it's basically...

I have a growing collection of drill bits. Some are in sets that were bought as a set with the odd bit missing. Others are misc bits that I've acquired over the years. It's becoming a disorganised mess. I'm guessing this isn't a problem that's unique to me. So thought I'd ask, How does everyone...

What's a shooting board? I have a plane. J

Slight error of judgement on my part. It's a 5° error. Having sat there and had a play and worked it through with a friend, we've concluded that the issue is that the vertical backrest isn't vertical, so when you clamp the piece to this and start cutting that inaccuracy multiplies out across the...