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Apologies if this has been covered before, i find the forums a bit tricky to search these days. Just bought some snipes bills. There’s a pair with vertical irons. Can anyone tell me why the irons are set this way? Is it for lighter work so they act more like profiled scrapers? Thanks in...

Hi I'm in the process of clearing my mother’s garage in anticipation of a move. There's a small number of hard/softwood boards and furniture parts to giveaway. Be a shame for them to go to waste. They are of various sizes and thicknesses but as a guide: Roughly 3/4" upwards and 1' x 2' boards...

Hi, I'm in the process of building myself some of these. They are pretty pricey and hopefully I can make something that will fit better in the room we have and with veneered board options. I dont actually know how this is constructed. i dont think they'd be very forthcoming if i asked! I'm...

Hi all, some restoration/cleaning advice needed, I hope someone can help. We just bought a teak sideboard but need to clean some streaking/drips off. It looks like someone’s either spilt food liquid or may be some sort of finish on it in places. The drips have a soft feel to them, they can be...

Hi I'm having a lot of difficulty using some hollows. The wedge tends to be either very loose or so tight that you can't adjust the iron. Just wondering is the wedge supposed to bear on the inside of the plane on all surfaces or just some of them like the face and back: Untitled by...

Doing some work on some double door frames and realised that the side jambs have been cut slightly splayed, about 9mm. Does anyone know why this might have been done? Thought it might be to do with leading edge type closing stuff but the doors themselves have quite pronounced leading edges...

Hi all Not strictly a building conservation forum here but perhaps someone can help. Working on a load of window sashes at the moment, repairing them. Were taking the glass out and quite a few, the older panes I think, are held in with very hard black coloured putty. It's very resistant to...

I'm making a replacement for the sad looking canopy below, and deciding on what woods to use. I believe doug fir is supposed to have more durability than regular redwood pine but if its painted does that make much difference? I think I wanted to give the thing a fighting chance if the client's...

I might be making a framed and ledged door (see previous posts, thanks for the info so far!). The client wants to know about lock options, does any one have experience of fitting multipoints to older, not necessarily plumb or square doorways and doors? (I've never fitted a multipoint to...

How does this work? Its a 3/8 adapter of some sort but no instructions on how to use it. I hesitate to 'wing it' cos of the propensity for collets to jam/seize/whatever. Can any one help? http://www.flickr.com/photos/markuspalarkus/12323358455/ by markuspalarkus and here’s the 1/4" collet that...

Hi all, hope you can help. A customer wants me to look at making a framed-ledged front door for them. Can anyone suggest a source of design for the glazing detail, or tell me if its straight forward to do so. A glazing firm has advised a 14mm unit but what I'm unfamiliar with is how to frame...

Hi all, Bit of advice needed. Been asked to box in a boiler in an alcove in the style of some existing joinery. They want it to match a built-in that’s already there, it has ogee mouldings. Not sure if you can buy this as applied beading so was going to rout it. Can you use the combination panel...

Hi I posted on this before a loooooong looooong time ago… how time flies : ) The original plan for these box shelves was to reinforce them with bar set into the wall. c Original by markuspalarkus, on Flickr Sadly my drilling was so bad I couldn't get a neat straight line of drillings, the...

IMG_0113.jpg by markuspalarkus, on Flickr Advice needed if you can. A client wants to double glaze the roof in the picture. It has a massive gap under the eaves, presumably to ventilate it, and it leaks heat like crazy. She also wants to replace the french doors but I'm okay about fitting some...

Hi I'm skirting some big open plan rooms. I'm using packers to level the boards along the runs and find the low points and its taking forever. I can't afford a laser level but is there anything I can do that would speed this up? Also the skirtings use a second mini scotia type rail in front of...

Just repaired the rail on a casement sash. A bit of a pain and probably could have done better just getting another sash made. Anyhoo can you buy the sections found in windows or do joiners always make their own up? If anyone has a link that'd be great. Cheers Marko

Hi all, we lucked into some reclaimed maple and want to lay it in our hallway. My wife was interested in laying it as a herring bone. The hallway is not wide, only a meter give or take so it would result in a lot of short pieces. Apart from the extra work I wondered if this is advisable? The...

I'd like to find interior hinges for the camper that will stay open. The door is in a face frame sort of arrangement so kitchen type hinges won't do (at least I don’t think they will, feel free to disabuse me of this). Edit: Inset doors, that's the term I was after. Also there’s some cranked...

Like the silly person hole I am I used a snappy bit in my impact driver and its very stuck. Does anyone know how to get something like this out? Its a panasonic but I think the bits are fairly of a type. (there again I got the thing stuck so what do I know?) Suggestions welcomed! Mark

I'm overhauling some windows that use this size of hinge, does anyone know where i can get some electro brassed ones as backups? (some of the smaller top sash hings have broken, I'm already getting replacements for these so thought I should hedge my bets for the side hung sashes too) Can't...