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To explain that question: For many years I used only an old Bosch PSS 230 orbital sander on various small projects such as shelves. I gave that sander hours and hours of use over the years, and developed a way of working with it that would see me going back and forth many times over a surface...

I need to cut some curved corner braces (quadrants) from 6" x 2" oak, each about 500mm long. I don't have a band saw, which I guess might be the best tool for this job, but I'm thinking a really good jigsaw might do it. The Bosch is £230 at Axminster: 800W motor, barrel grip, looks good...

Here's a trick to avoid: Release power switch on belt sander (a powerful Makita 4"), flip the sander onto its side while the belt's still moving, but slowing down, and change the belt... Speeds things up a tad and works fine maybe a dozen times, THEN Slight pressure of finger on the belt...

Just bought an old (1980s..?) Sedgwick PT255 Planer-Thicknesser It's a three-phase machine which I'll be using on a domestic single-phase supply. I've begun reading up on what's involved today... my brain started hurting with these - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-wye_transformer...

I imagine I can hear some of you groaning... not again..?!! Sorry..! Having read other posts and advice, I'm after a medium size second-hand model. Neither my budget nor workshop will stretch to 2 separate machines. There are a few available on eBay at the moment: Several SIPs (01550, 01552)...

I've read several of the threads here on this and am thinking of getting a planer, and maybe a thicknesser. The first use I'd have for this is to square up and flatten 8ft long, 8" x 4" oak 'sleepers' which are green to semi-green, rough and slightly bent. Obviously, they're a bit heavy..! I...

I'm just setting up a UJK Technology router table, with the dust extractor housing. The table will be more or less permanently located between in-feed and out-feed tables, so I've taken the wheels off - though it can be moved if necessary. I'm thinking it's going to be quite a pain to mount and...

Another question from this gradual rebuild I'm absorbed in... I'm now building an oak frame to sit on top of a stone porch base. The porch has steps which lead up to the first floor where we enter the house: https://millhousedays.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/porch-and-steps/ The design, from our...

I'm going to be making timber sub-frames to fit windows into heavy section oak main/outer frames. The windows are to be fitted from outside, sealing against the sub-frames. The sub-frames are 17mm thick oak, rebated 5mm deep and 35mm wide; I can choose the overall width of the sub-frames...

I'm renovating an old Mill House and will be sorting floors in the next few months. That includes fitting 11inch wide new oak boards in one room and cleaning up 200 year old pine boards in another. I'm not sure I'd want to take a floor sander to either, and a smaller belt sander might create...

My first post here, which I'll try to keep concise... I'm rebuilding an old house and gradually putting together a set of tools as I need them. I now need a decent router as I'm soon going to be doing a set of a dozen or so mortise and tenon joints in 90mm green oak, followed by making some...