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Yes, they're about £45 - 60 for a pack of 20, depending on finish. I only have 4 doors to do on this job so I'll have a few left over for future jobs. I guess they work out at about £2-3 per hinge but loads of time will be saved vs fitting hinges the traditional way and the quality of finish...

I have a couple of in frame office cabinets to make and I'm thinking of trying Lamello Duplex Hinges on the doors. I haven't used these before but I think they look smart (compared with kitchen cupboard type hinges) and I like the fact that the doors can be lifted off when I transport the...

Yes, been in touch with them now and they're sending me some free samples. It's 55% wood fibre and 45% recycled polymer, has a 25 year life and doesn't rot, so just the thing for building planters. The price, however, is just over double that of standard softwood decking, which is readily...

Does anyone have any experience of building with "ecodeck" the kind of material that's made out of recycled plastic. I may have a batch of planters coming my way to build out of this. Can it be machined - cut, drilled, planed etc. - in exactly the same way as wood? What about fastenings, joints...

Does anyone have any experience of the Axminster Axcaliber dovetail jig and would they recommend it? http://www.axminster.co.uk/axcaliber-do ... 455a989a66 I'm looking for something to make some drawers for a one off kitchen that I'm building. I've also looked at the Trend CDJ300, so I'm...

Thanks Colin that's very helpful. I can cut panels down with my table saw having just made a new SLAT for that purpose, which works with enough accuracy for cabinet work. I'm thinking of building the cabinets with housing joints (as I don't have a biscuit cutter). I also want to do build in...

Yes, that's an idea I hadn't thought of MR MDF ... What's it like at taking a paint finish, particularly on the edges, and does it come in any veneered finishes?

I'm thinking about building my own kitchen and would be interested in hearing recommendations for material to construct the units with. I'm considering using 18mm birch ply, but - whilst this would be ok for base units - seems quite heavy stuff for wall units and is relatively expensive? I've...

OK, I see what you mean by a jig, the one on wood whisperer looks like it would be worth having around, I think I will make one! ... It'll be good for stopped housings but no good for full housings as the router will cut into the clamp on the end of the jig.

Before I made my own router table I'd clamp batons on the workpiece to guide the router and I'd clamp the workpiece to the bench. it was a lot of hassle and I wouldn't want to go back anything like that to cut housings ... I'm not sure I know what a 'self sizing jig' is. Do you have a link?

Yes ... but a problem with the router is dust removal when cutting housings on a router table? That's not a problem when cutting housings with a dado stack.

I can't cut housings 1/3 to 1/2 deep in, for example, the 1" Utile that I've been working with recently with one pass of my router, which is why I'm using the table saw ... Maybe I don't have a very good router? What would you recommend to cut a 3/8" deep by 1" wide housing over a 1 foot length...

Yes, I thought that was probably the case (having phoned Metabo this morning). I'm interested in using the table saw to cut housings for cabinet work in hardwood, without making lots of passes over the single blade which is what I do at the moment. The router is fine for mdf and softwood but...

I have a Matabo PK200 table saw. The blades are 210 x 30 bore. There's no advice in the user manual regarding dado stacks but I'd like to fit a dado stack to it if that's possible? Has anyone done this and what would you recommend? Would it be better to go for a 6" rather than an 8" stack to...