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Hi AndyT I have been in the restoration game since the early 60`s. Have used lots of the edwardian furniture as breakers a cheap sorce of older timber. I don`t rember anything that looked like old mfi (maybe I thought it had been repaired with it) and bined it as of no use. Mind you they had...

Hi Looks as if they are all in hiding here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... ssion.html regards Norman

Hi saw on like that last week at the heathfield auction. could you be a visitor?? Regards norman

Hi all thanks for the interest in this. Some other standpoints on this in this short video link. http://vodpod.com/watch/1441321-ron-pau ... eople-who- Norman

HI A little boy goes to his father and asks, 'What is Politics and why is that Gordon Brown on the television again?' Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The Prime Minister. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so...

Hi came across this info which seems to me to explain in some detail the cause of the big credit crash. Sorry its a bit long but interesting I feel. Securitization: The Biggest Rip-off Ever By Mike Whitney June 05, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -Is it possible to make...

Hi all Have been sent this . Gave me a laugh. **/Drafting Guys over 60----this is funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier-/** **/New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!/** **/I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You...

Hi Jenx What did you think? any comments? I liked the ending, not that I will see it at my age but great for the great grandkids. Regards Norman

Hi have a look at this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 7695921912 could maybe of interest. Norman

Hi I tried tried this some time ago, about 4years. I found that bargains were what most people were willing to buy, so in the end, I only use to clear out items that I cannot sell at a normal auction house. I found that ebay has become too filled with sellers and this holds the prices down...

sorry, yes thats what I mean. Use a Victorian style, tapered octagonal column on a base. The shape of the base is your choice, can be for as many legs as you require to mount. Regards Norman

Hi JB A jig saw could replace the band saw for the legs for the colm centre you could use vic style oct taper col on a base so no lathe required. Just a thought. simple hand tools only required. Have fun Norman

Hi Prin scroll/jig saw from flat side with fine blade. Or by hand with frame saw again with a fine blade. Make sure that the bed end is well supported and square. have fun Norman

Hi JB you may find what you are looking for in Antique auctions or junk shops, they often have the odd broken table for sale. But if you want new why not make your own not very hard to make from scratch. That way you get just what you want. Regards Norman

Hi. I used 3 steel brick bolster and a club hammer to remove the sides from the metal frame allow a couple of inches for the wood to split,clean up with a adze on the floor. cut to size and reduce as required. Used to be very good sellers I received at auction between £1000 and £1500 each took...

Hi all I have turned about 80 old pianos into davenport writing decks over the years that I worked as a antique restorer, It was a very nice side earner. The best prices were for the 24" ones in a nice walnut burr. regards Norman

Hi Some years ago a friend who was a antique dealer found this out the hard way. On a visit to London to stay with some people was taken arround to visit and to be shown off by them. quiries as to valuations aplenty, all very very high prices paid buy them all. He went to Newark Fair and...

Hi Dan Think who maybe looking in to the forum. I have just had a visit re working from home, because most of my freinds are in the woodworking trade and park their vans ouside my workshop when they visit. As I am now 78 with heart byepass and all the other bits falling off, it was not to hard...

could use a car heater connect to the pipework would save a lot of work. the ones I had came from a firm with 8 mill pipes, called Mini rad very cheap to run only had to heat about 20 ltrs of water with the main boiler to run about 10 rads. Regards Norman

Hi wizer work in the same way as your car heater. Hot water pipes with a fan to drive the air over. They work very well . I had them fitted in one of the houses that I owned in the 70`s works in the same as normal c heating. also usefull as a cooler in the summer. Regard Norman