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A couple of months ago I was asked if I would like to make a small box to hold two brass buttons. The only conditions laid down were that it was to be made of Oak and Canadian Maple - the rest was up to me. I thought at one point that I'd fallen at the first hurdle when I discovered the price...

I've been asked to make a small box to accommodate two uniform buttons from WW2 and a Free French lapel badge. The box is to be made of Oak and Canadian Maple. The Canadian Maple is for my clients personal and sentimental reasons and can't be anything else. My problem is the price of the...

Hi all. I got these two Yew boards in the summer and have been wondering what to use them for. I usually keep myself busy making boxes to sell in a local gallery but wanted to do something different and to do justice to this lovely wood. So I thought I might have a go at something like this...

I've been looking for a used bandsaw for some time now but due to health problems I would struggle to travel too far to collect. Just noticed an ad locally for a Rexon BS10SA but this is a machine I know nothing about and wondered if anyone on here could advise please. I was impressed by the...

Is anyone able to identify this tool please? It was unearthed in a garden here in Scotland. Looks to me like you stab something to pick it up and then crush it in the pan thing. Haggis maybe :? Thanks for looking Paul

I'm hoping someone reading this can help. I've a Hewlett Packard Pavilion laptop running Windows 10. The mains adapter recently stopped working so I bought a new one using the part number shown on the original. All works fine now but I'm getting an annoying popup every time I start which...

This should have been a post under 'Projects' to show off my wife's nice new Workbox. The box has decided instead that it belongs under this more general heading, complete with an annoying twist. The box is approx. 70cm x 29cm, dovetailed corners with a ply base rebated into the sides which is...

A friend bought this curiosity at a car boot sale and wondered what it is. We haven't found an answer yet so I thought I'd pose the question on here. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what this is or how it was used? There's been a suggestion that the shiny, machined end would have had...

Thought this was amusing Paul

Noticed there haven't been many workshop WIP's on here lately and wondered if you were all up for one? Apart from being on a sloping site it's not a particularly interesting or unusual build but I know how much people like a project with pictures! Anyone interested in what I do with this lot?

I'm at the design stage of my new workshop and considering roofing materials. The site for the workshop is partially under two large Maple trees which occasionally shed small branches and twigs. Before you ask, I can't relocate the site. EPDM is very new to me as a roofing material so I have a...

I'm due to start building a workshop this year and have just been offered a set of upvc patio doors, 4 x 1m square plain upvc windows and 8 x 1m square upvc windows with opening toplights. These are currently in a conservatory in a neighbours house - they've decided to turn it into a proper...

Morning all. I'm about to embark on tiling our new kitchen extension floor with rectangular tiles 60cm x 40cm. The space is 6.9m x 4.6m. My dilemma is which direction do I run the tiles? Is there an industry standard? We will lay them 1/3 to 2/3 staggered brickbond pattern. My inclination is...

Wondered if anyone had experience of vertical lift mechanisms for kitchen cupboard doors? I'm at the planning stage for our new kitchen and due to space restrictions need to have two cupboard doors - one above the other - lift up vertically. The doors will be surface mounted (overlay?) type...

For various reasons we want to install a door in the opening to the extension on the back of our cottage. I'll explain the problem - this was the original back door of the old part of the house, the wall is two feet deep and built of stone - and also out of true! The doorway will need to be...

Anyone out there into civil engineering? I've got a gently sloping path up the hill at the back of our house that needs some sort of surface treatment to make it safe to use, particularly at this time of year. The surface soil is peat and leaf mould over stone. The stone content makes it a...

A bit of background. When we moved up to this delightful part of Scotland last year we had a very urgent need for extra storage space for most of the tools that came from my small workshop down south. The answer was a cheap and nasty B&Q shed. It was 10' x 8' with double doors and no windows and...

Hi all I've recently had to chisel my way under the wall of our house to install a mains water pipe (we had a private water supply previously). The foundations are actually a minimal 150mm approx. of concrete on top of the solid rock that is present very close to the surface here on the SW...

....or Garden Room or Summer House. Similar to a workshop WIP but with beer 8) At risk of boring everyone I thought I'd post progress on my big shed project mainly to invite criticism because, although fairly confident in what I'm doing, I don't know everything and sometimes can't see the...

Hi all Just wondered if anyone on here either works with, or knows of, radial arm saws other than the ubiquitous DeWalt offerings? Someone I know is expanding his business workshop and needs two new radial arm saws so he asked me if I could point him in the right direction (I used to own a...