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A good friend of mine, a lady of a certain age, is planning a fund raising event at her home for an Altzheimer's charity, a disease which contributed to her husband's death 5 years ago. I'd like to be able to recommend a treatment for me to use on the decking, a few fence panels and driveway...

Happy Easter, I was recently given and have just cleaned up a Picador 10" disc sander, seems a tidy bit of kit. The disc that's on it is u/s and I don't know what grit paper would be best to go for as I imagine once it's fitted it'll be there until worn out. I'm thinking start off with a course...

Is anyone familiar with this tool? http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPa ... p?id=14987 I came across one last week and don't know how much of an oddity it is. It'll more likely measure wood than metal with me. Cheers.

I know for one in a garage that's up for grabs and I think the owner is in danger of getting taken for a ride. I don't know much about it but from what I've quickly looked up its the earlier one with the curved panels. Any idea on what a low price might be on one? There would be lots of stuff to...

I rescued one these from a garage clear out today. It'll clean up nicely but the wooden front knob has a slice missing off the side. I wouldn't mind making a new one one day but does anyone know how the threaded rod is fixed in the knob? Is the thread the same along its length or is there a...

I'm currently having a go at flattening a face on a piece of reclaimed timber nearly 12" x 6" and 6' long. Using windings sticks now because it's a bit out. This reminded me of how they used to set up drains many years ago, fix a 'T' at point A and at point B then move a 3rd along the line and...

I happened upon a pack of these today but with a total of 11 I assumed that it wasn't a proper set. Now I see that some have four grooves for adjusting and most of them have seven grooves. Any idea what the seven groove ones for? Cheers.

Unusually the name of a chisel manufacturer doesn't provide any hits on the 'search' facility here. Apparently it's a well regarded American maker from around about a 100 years ago. Just wondering if anyone has something lurking in their workshop. I saw a quite short (worn down?) socketed...

I came across this whilst cutting my neighbours hedge, sorry I haven't got a picture. A few years ago he had new oak gates with rail fence each side, not being a man to skimp on details he had the tops of the four posts nicely capped with lead which to my mind was a sensible approach. However...

I recently rescued a chunk of Beech that was destined to be firewood, promising to give a large portion of it back as a wedding present sometime in the autumn, I think it's September. I've not done anything as big as this before, never had to turn the headstock on my CL3, but have managed to...

Can someone explain how this works? The guy lost me after 15 seconds :? http://youtu.be/RVxeDHglklo

I hope I got lucky with this 'unusual tool' today. The seller didn't know what it's for but I think I can make use of it. Any guesses?

Well I've not seen anything quite like it anyway. Found this in a hedge yesterday, sorry they aren't very good pictures. The growth looks like it has developed around the branch rather than it being an enlarged part of the branch itself. It seems to have ordinary bark and be solid wood. I...

I want to post some pics that I managed to grab this morning. I don't want to host them on photobucket etc so how do I post them so they can be clicked on and open up in a new plain forum page which I find a more pleasant way to view. Hope I make sense and sorry for being stupid. OK, found it...

I'm forever picking up odd bits of 'good' wood that are on the verge of being burnt or disposed of in someway. Tonight I came across what I thought was a parquet block with hard pitch type substance on one face, but it also has dowel holes in the sides. Two on each long side and one on each end...

My second post in 5 minutes, pardon me for clogging up the forum. My cousin recently renovated a house and gave me the task of doing something with old doors, floorboards, skirting boards and a chunk of church type paneling that had been ripped out. She wanted something a bit rustic looking...

I don't remember where this seat base came from but I've never seen it with anything other than sawn off legs and back. At one time I was going to turn it into some sort of platter but because it's warped badly the size and thickness of a finished article would have to be reduced from the...

Rant mode on . . . . . . . . Why do some eBay sellers 'sharpen' chisels, for Pete's sake why can't they sell them as is. Found two examples tonight, one was by by a maker that I look out for but it had met with a grindstone and the half the edge was well blued. Then there's this one, I'll say...

Bit of a landmark day today, my first box came off the production line. No chance with this to line up the grain unfortunately, I had to split the piece of wood to start because of two old nails in the middle of it so I cut the remaining bit in two and put one on top of the other. It was...

Hi. I bought my lathe secondhand a good few years ago, it came with a chuck and I've never known exactly which it is. The paper work which came in the box of jaws refers to both chucks, is there a way of telling the difference visually? Is there much point in worrying which type I have or shall...