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I just visited the SketchUcation site to see if any more woodworking tutorials had been added and was surprised to see that all the existing ones had been lost. :( Dave R, I wonder if you could help them there... I lost all mine when my laptop went kerboom!

I've got one from B&Q but had to wash it as it was like stiff cardboard... and now it's shrunk during the drying cycle lol... Well it did cost less than a fiver. :lol: OK, my question is where would you suggest getting a decent woodworking apron from. I can't use overalls as I'm extremely...

Can someone enlighten me as to how the heck these turnings don't fall over and break????

When I was browsing for metric router bushes I stumbled across this excellent little calculater done by Trend. You can find the calculator here. It even works in both Metric and Imperial and converts from one to another. It even wars you when the clearance between a guide bush and cutter are...

I watched an old NYW ep the other day and meant to ask you lot about the strange biscuit jointer norm used. instead of pushing into the wood at 90 degrees this one was at an angle and hinged into the wood. As i've never seen one like it ever i'm guessing it was an early model. On top of that I...

One of the things I am going to change in my living room is remove the spotlights in my living room and it's a good thing too. About two years ago my mom bought them for me as I liked the way they looked. Unfortunately looks is something I should have put at the bottom of the wish list as they...

One part of the living room decorating mods I need to do is a panel to hide the wiring for under my wall mounted Pioneer 435XDE plasma TV. It will probably be a piece of 6mm MDF mounted on battens. Now what is there out there that will mimic the deep black shine of the plasma surround? I've...

Does anyone know of an easier way of declogging an Orbital Sander's sanding sheet. I've tried to use a stiff brush but end up removing the sand on the sheet too. Could it be the sanding disks themeselves being at fault. I sort of remember something about sanding disk that resist clogging but...

Just watched this demo of inside out turning and boy does it look cool. It was good enough that it's made me want to get a lathe (yet another tool on my wish list). This guy in the demo did a goblet INSIDE of a bottle. I just wish I could record the channel...

Does anyone else have problems with the side menu not working at all. Clicking on things such as Schedule and Programs just doesn't do anything at all for me. I've tried it in IE and Firefox btw.

Has anyone here ever bought stuff from Mackays of Cambridge? If you delve deep into their shop there are some things that are more expensive than other and some that are a lot cheaper than others. I was interested in stuff for home made router tables and they have a lot of stuff including...

I don't know how many out there have watched House (Hugh Laurie as the super-sarcastic super-doc) but I love it. Well while I was watching it tonight there was a bit with House and a friend (Dr Wilson) who is staying with him for a bit... Wilson is looking at the TV shows that House is...

After trying to sand a curve I decided it's time to get a drum sander. As I can't afford a dedicated bobbin sander I had a look around the different ones available for use with a drill press. Man what a price range... From £8.23 for this to £49.95 for for this. Is the cheap Axminster drum set...

I've been looking at a few US made router tables and noticed that they use offset mounting a lot (generally when using Incra fence adjusters). Is using offset just because of these humungous adjuster mechanisms or is there another reason as well?

Does anyone have the foggiest of roughly when car boot sales start to appear again or are they on all the time (I haven't been to one for ages)? I want to start trolling for 2nd hand woodworking tools for my workshop you see. 8)

I was just working out a levelling jig plan for reducing thin material (what I'm aiming at is creating 1mm thick glazing plastic out of 3mm to create shims) when I had a thought about what someone else here said about MDF. Currently my temporary workbench top is laminated MDF (2x18mm) and I...

After getting bamboozled with metric nuts and bolts in Incra T-Track I got to think on about the Incra miter channel. Is it the same size as all other miter/mitre channel or is it too an imperial size that wont work with our mitre gauges. If so it looks like me buying a bunch of Incra mitre bar...

OK... Incra T-Track is a bit of a pain when it comes to using Metric bolts... Why? because 8mm bolts which fit through the track slot will not work with the nuts that fit them. In the end I've figured out that using 8mm coach bolt with two edges ground down will work nicely as cheap T-Bolts...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent saw angle setting gauge. The stops on my Performance Pro sliding mitre saw are total pooh and I have spent ages today just getting it set to proper 45 degrees. It's only slightly out but enough to make mitred corners have gaps in and of course if...

Has anyone here ever had their finishing rags burst into flame? It's pretty worrying when you read the caution on the back of a can of Danish Oil you see... :shock: I mean like does it mean that while you are rubbing it on that it goes WHOOSH or what? I'm beginning to have more respect for...