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Need your advice on a woodwork issue. If I wanted a 1cm square taking out of a 2cm thick piece of wood, how would I do so? Chisel? - but I'm not sure that's near enough for the finish I want.

Local timber merchants it is then! What kind of wood is light? I'm making mainly toys at the minute and have used pine and it has been quite heavy. I have a decent sized piece of spruce but can't figure out if the pieces would be any lighter? Any other suggestions for a hard wearing light wood?

I've seen these, do they purely guide? You don't lock your drill in?

Whilst you're here then... whilst making the toy for my daughter, one of the problems I had was drilling holes through wood which were perfectly straight. I'm starting my next project now and wondered how am I best doing this?

Any suggestions where is a good place to buy wood? I'm still very new to woodworking and my last project I made from one board of pine bought from B&Q. Is pine the best option? Is was nice to work with and gave a good finished effect. Is B&Q the place to be... I very much doubt it, but not sure...

Made this for my little girls birthday this week, was not only the last thing I made, but also the first thing I made - got the bug now!

Will do, just need to figure out how to resize images when uploading from my phone

Great input, thanks guys

Thanks! I've seen just a regular drill bit which is the right size, would that work if I took it slow. Yeah, I have a bench and vice clamps, so whatever way I end up trying, I'll have it tightly secured.

Hi, I'm very new to wood work, made my daughter a small ironing board for her home corner and was very proud, so keeping going whilst I'm on a role, but could do with some advice if I may. I'm making a hobby horse for my next quick project (the horse's head on a stick that you ride). I'm using...