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I have just come in from my workshop a little puzzled. I am making a frame up out of some 6x2 timber I have planed and thicknessed square and to consistent dimensions (not a picture frame, but think of a large chunky one and you will have what I am constructing i you mind's eye). I am butt...

I followed the link in the latest Rutlands sale mail shot (I know, I know, but we have covered that tin spades before) and was looking at the low angle rebating block plane. As a bit of a novice maybe I am mistaken, but my thinking is that as I have neither a low angle block plane or a shoulder...

Just come in from my workshop after a bit of a scary moment. I was cutting a groove (dado?) on my router table in the side of a piece of oak, one of four pieces that are intended to receive a panel to form the lid of a box I am making. I was using a 6mm straight cutter which came as part of a...

I plan to make my way to Peter's event this coming Saturday. I wondered who else may be going? Terry.

Anyone have any experience good or bad of hinges made by Armac Martin, these ones in particular http://www.martin.co.uk/products/hinges ... 1589833360 I don't mind paying more for Brusso, but this is for a box I am making for a family secret santa and we are supposed to stay under £10 so Brusso...

Any help would be much appreciated. I bought my Xcalibur table saw second hand off this forum and have been very happy with my purchase. When I picked it up it had the longer of the two arbors fitted which allows the dado tack to be out on the saw. I presume the last owner left this on as it...

I saw a news report that suggested Black Friday will not be such a big thing this year, but I wondered if anyone had seen any particularly good offers? Always up for a bargain, even if I don't need it the lure of a sale price seems irresistible to me :wink: . Terry.

So does anyone know who the Buckinghamshire based furniture making business being featured on BBC news today in their piece on the Bank of England's inflation forecast is? Terry.

I have always been a fan of John Lewis as I have absolute faith that they will act on any issues that arise and I know they will honour the "never knowingly undersold" pledge. But recent experience makes me think that they really must be the best retailer in the UK from a customer perspective...

My good lady is after a new clothes airer, and I thought it might make a nice little project for me to help improve my skills a little. My expectation is that it will get some fairly damp clothes hung on it straight from the washing machine. Any thoughts around timber that will be particularly...

A family member has asked if I can make some replacement brackets for a towel rail. The originals are made of MDF and have just split when one of their kids was a little too vigorous when hanging up a towel. Whilst a replacement rail costs buttons they can't find one that will line up with the...

The time has come for me to have some sharpening done, I'd welcome recommendations for where best to send them. I know Cutting Solutions are well regarded for buying blades, but a very quick look on their website doesn't seem to indicate they sharpen. Terry.

A week or so ago I picked up an online auction purchase, but I only managed to get it out of the car and into the workshop today It was a bit of a punt but the price was reasonable, it came from a small engineering workshop and now having had a much better look at it has clearly been...

I am in the process of an extraction upgrade, one question that has come to mind is on the position of blast gates. If, for example, I have a junction splitting my ducting run I could place a blast gate immediately after the point at which the duct run splits, or I could put it close to the...

Am looking for a planer thicknesser and the Scheppach Plana 3.0 is on the short list. My problem is that it does not seem anyone in the UK (let alone near me) that has one available to look at. I could buy one on the basis of a free return in any time between 15 and 30 days, but I think to...

Just noticed, somebody is about to make the 1 millionth post on this site! Terry.

Did anyone go to Yandles yesterday or going today? At the D&M show last month Record Power were doing a deal on the PT107, selling for £899 if I recall correctly. I wondered if that was a one off or if they are offering this price at other shows this autumn / winter? If anyone happened to...

I'm in the market for a cyclone dust separator. It will be running off a 3hp SiP chip extractor and that seems to mean I should be using a Dust Deputy Super (as opposed to the standard smaller Dust Deputy) which says it is rated for 1-3hp extractors. This runs out at about £192 from...

I wondered if anyone had seen the new Axminster Trade planer thicknessers yet (my local Axminster doesn't have any stock). The pictures of the AT 107PT on the website look very similar indeed to the Record Power PT107 and the spec is also very similar with one exception, the weight. Record...

I visited my local branch of Arnold Laver a few days back for the first time, as I wanted to buy a piece of pine to build a prototype for something my daughter wants me to make. When I bought it I thought it seemed a bit pricey, but didn't do the maths in my head. I've just been online and got...