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Hi, Does anyone have a local (Romsey, Hampshire) recommendation for sharpening planer/thicknesser blades please? I found a couple of places searching online (Havant, Eastleigh) but if there's one you've used and can recommend then that would be preferred to choosing one at random ... thanks, Colin

Hi, Looking for some advice on best way to finish a repair please. The top had a 3mm shrinkage crack along an old glue joint. I've managed to dismantle and reglue the joint but now need to finish it. The top has a layer of veneer which had a jagged edge when the joint below separated. In...

Hi All, I want to restore an antique top which has cracked along an old joint line (breaking the veneer on top). The crack is close to 3mm wide. I have managed to remove the top, but the screws holding the front cracked piece to a frame are rusted solid. I feel that the gap is too big to fill...

Hi, Just started planning a floor to ceiling whole wall bookshelf (3.57m wide 2.27m high and approx 30cm deep). Needs to be oak finish and will be stained medium oak. Looking through previous shelf discussions on the forum, favoured solution would be 18/19mm oak veneered ply for the shelves...

Hi, I've just started wood turning and have been playing around with some logs I had lying around for the woodburner. I made a bowl blank from a piece of oak (air dried for two years?). After I'd cleaned it up with a roughing gouge I thought I'd try to use a skew chisel to do some basic...

Hi, I recently bought a lathe off ebay and it can with a box of bits. I'm fairly sure that these three bits are nothing to do with the lathe but would be interested if anyone knows what they are please? This is some sort of adjustable depth stop: This looks more like guides from something...

Hi, I'm converting a lathe which came with a dual voltage 3 phase motor to 240V using an inverter (3phase 240V) Do I need to rewire the motor in any way please or is it just handled in the connection box? Thx Colin

Hi, Looking for some advice on preparing my windows for repainting please. I started looking a one window to see how much work is going to be involved (this is not quite the worst example of 19 windows!) Where the paintwork deteriorated over the years there's wet rot at various stages...

Hi, I'm looking for a recommendation for an electric sander please. Over the summer I need to sand and paint 17 multi-paneled windows and and looking for a decent sander to use that I could then also use for finishing furniture/cabinets (this is probably a primary goal - the windows are simply...

Hi, This is my first real project. I'm making an oak coffee table from worktop offcuts. I've reached the stage of dry assembling it and am about to start finishing. My plan was sand starting with 80 grit - trying to do as much as I could before glueing up, and then use higher grit for...

Hi, Having been distracted by a couple of projects for my daughter I'm now back to building my oak octagonal table and have a 'joint' question. The style I'm looking at is like the 'Mouseman' coffee table with cross rails - see second image on this old ebay listing ...

I recently purchased an old Progress bench drill but it is missing a part. I have circled the missing part on the photo of a similar drill below: What's missing is a handle and a spindle that passes through the front of the drill (I guess that it's some sort of cam that locks the depth of...

Hi, My first project using this plane involves creating a 1/4" groove in stiles and rails for a cupboard door. I started at the far end of the stock, not taking an excessive shaving per pass but still found it difficult to keep the plane absolutely square to the side of the stock. Net result...

Hi, I'm new to woodworking and my first real project was building a workbench (with a lot of input from Chris Schwartz's workbench book). So, I now have a heavy softwood bench and am looking for advice on whether to apply any sort of finish to it (after all it's only a workbench but it is now...

I have just acquired one of these and wondered if anyone had a manual please? It's my first pillar drill so not experienced on routine maintenance and any guidance would be appreciated. I have fully extended the quill and it seems very solid - so it's passed the first check! Thx, Colin

Was anyone else watching this old woodfast lathe on ebay? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/wood-lathe-/1 ... 257a3d2adc Sold for over my budget but maybe I should have stretched further?

I took a picture of an old drill in a friends shed and said that I would research it for them. I thought that I'd would be able to read the logo from the picture but unfortunately can't :( So, no prizes, but can anyone tell me what make/model this is please? Thanks, Col

After reading through the forums, even though the consensus was ‘go for used’, after watching a few auctions I still didn’t feel confident enough to take the risk on a used machine and fettle it to good working order so, after a lot of research, I decided to stretch to the entry level Jet...

I'm a novice and this is my first serious woodworking project so looking for some advice please I am planning to build an octagonal coffee table The top will be cut from a piece of oak staved kitchen worktop (40mm thick) but I don't want endgrain along the edges. Therefore I will cut 8...

Been investigating a planer/thicknesser for a while now and have come down to the following: Axminster AW106PT2 Charnwood W583 SIP 01575 Have been watching *bay for used old iron (the various makes as recommended in these forums) but by the time transport (and possibly conversion from 3 phase)...