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Getting a free 72x2 belt sander, but no belts. Will need to get belts that go beyond your standard woodworking grits. For beveling and polishing edges of marble plaques. Generally need from 50 to 6000 grit. Who can supply in UK ?

Been doing some marble house numbers, plaques, and its going swimmingly (laser engraving). Granite, however, is a bit tricky...in a sense that i cannot get it bright enough. Marble engraves very white and stays white in the wet (rain), granite engraving is much duller and just plain disappears...

I'm in need of advice on painting exterior wooden door. It looks like the door is mahogany/sapele solid door, but been painted several times. Dry scraping inside side looks like its some sort of vinyl paint. Absolutely no idea what kind of paint is on the outside. Brown and flaking. Not planning...

How does one go about drying freshly cut tree rounds without them splitting ? Neighbor felled a tree that i might want to use for projects, specifically slice it into 1-2 inch thick rounds to use for side table tops and such ? Diameter is 30-50cm. Planking is a no go, neither drying the whole...

Anyone have any tips on painting glass ? Having trouble with uniform filling back engraved mirrors, takes many layers to fill in gaps left by the brush. As if paint just wont stick to glass (duh... right)... Whole back has been washed in isopropyl alcohol to clean it. Tried brush...

Anyone here work with LED lights (on component level)? I need to find out if my idea is possible. I need to figure out if there exists rgb led package that i could press into a piece of acrylic to edgelight individual letters in a sign. For idea to work led package needs to be with...

I've been doing mirror engraving lately. Buy used cheap framed mirror, take out pins and mdf backing, laser engrave back, paint, knock pins back in, done. But latest mirror i got uses wire staples instead of flat sheet metal pointy pins - if i pull them i wont be able to put them back in. Looked...

Well, always wanted to try. Got 1,6mm diameter wire squished in rolling mill, resulting in 2.3x0,8mm ribbon. Annealed with a lighter (that took awhile). Drawn out design in coreldraw, lasered the design out in 100x100mm chunk of oak. Gaps/stabs are 0.7mm wide and some 1.5-2mm deep. Now, after...

Been looking at options to cut slate coasters myself as i have abundance of material. However, i couldn't find anything beyond traditional slaters knife, angle grinder and tile saw mehods that would produce presentable edge to coasters. I've tried hand cutting with slaters knife - chips in way...

I was wondering what is the opinion of using laser cutters in traditional woodworking ? I'm of sign making and graphics background, but always dabbled and was interested in the art of woodworking. A year ago i bought myself a relatively large laser cutter, started whole research of its uses...

Hello UKWS inhabitants. Recently i got interested in making some veneer cards and try my hand at marquetry, but for the life of me cant find a place to buy veneer in smaller sheets than full for reasonable price. Ebay/amazon offer only small scraps for quite a bit of money. I'd be interested in...

I'm being offered Wadkin AGS-250-300. As far as i know its three phase but easily converts to single phase (standard foot mounts?). Generally its in poor state, sat for a long time in open (but roofed) shed so table is rusty. At least. Tomorrow going to inspect it more thoroughly, today was too...

I'm about to buy a sliding mitre saw. B&Q at the moment offer two JCB ones i'm interested in, mostly due to my budget: 255mm http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/power-tools/ ... d=13649361 and 210mm http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/power-tools/ ... d=13649362 I'm inclined to get bigger one for bigger...

Well, my life came to a point where i want to change my hobby (and career?). But for that i need a workshop. I'm running on no budget at all so for now i have set my goal to put a frame up, wind/rain proof, so i can later build up little by little. Just cant afford to do this "properly" at this...