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For my next project (a door frame on the boat I'm rebuilding) I needed thicker stock than I had in my store. I needed a finished 2"x2.5" so I took pairs of 3" wide oak boards that were reasonably flat and ran them through the thicknesser and glued them up in pairs to give me the desired...

I have a workshop in a single garage. Here I prepare the timber I am using to re-fit an old boat, I'm using oak and exterior hardwood plywood. I use a 12" bandsaw (JET), an Axi table saw (TS200), an old PT and a homemade router cabinet. To collect dust I started with a Wickes vac then added an...

I am restoring an old river boat. The previous owner fitted a standard 2" thick domestic door to the main cabin, but there is not enough room to open a 24" door because of a floor step so the door is divided into 2 parts which means I get 20" usable opening when both leaves are open. I am hoping...

I am re-fitting an old river boat and planing to instal new lockers (cupboards). The structure is exterior ply and I want to frame the cupboard doors with hardwood (oak) to hide the edges. My plan was to produce the framing from strips of planned oak, e.g. from a 3/4" x 3/4" section to route out...

I need to process about 100m of sawn oak into PAR to make edgings and framings for the project boat I am refitting. I have a limited budget for woodworking tools and I would like to get a P/T for no more than £250 if possible. I have looked at the Woodstar PT85 which fits this budget as a new...

I'm new on this forum and I recently bought a 12" JET bandsaw from a member here, the JWBS 12OB. Now I may have done something wrong but I expect it was just the age of the tyre, anyway the lower wheel tyre trashed itself all round the V belt the very first time I used it. So now I am looking...