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Hi all, I could do with a bit of help with pricing. I have been given the opportunity to buy any amount of these locally grown Ash planks. I made the headboard from the same wood last year and I fell in love with it. These planks are just over 1” thick, about 14ft long (probably 11ft useable...

Good morning all. This is a very long shot but worth a try. I am fitting a kitchen for my daughter. I borrowed the above worktop jig from my brother in law. Everything went brilliantly and then, at the end, disaster! I was packing it up and dropped one of the black plastic pegs. Unbelievably it...

Hi all, I have been given 8 of these stained glass panels, taken from a bay window in a Victorian house. I have a plan to build a window incorporating the stained glass panels but not the frames. So, the question is how to remove the panels from the frames Without damaging them. This one...

My Brother in Law is a jolly nice chap. He has recenly retired from the joinery trade and sold all his workshop equipment but has kept lots of interesting wood, some of which he gave to me this weekend. So now I have some maple, cherry and walnut to play with but also a Large plank of what Pete...

Hi all, I thought I would share this for anyone else with the Triton router who wants to fit it in a table full time. I have had this machine for 5 years and I love it but it is a beast. Heavy and powerful but, for me much better suited to table use that as a handheld and indeed it has spent...

Hi all, I just had a great stroke of luck. The guy that sells me firewood and I got talking and I mentioned that I would really like some planks. He has been cutting up a lot of ash and today he brought these for me All about 50mm thick. I have read up quite a bit but I would welcome any advice...

Hi all, I know this is a bit basic but I am hopeless at identifying wood. I picked up this piece from a local wood recycling place. It looked really gritty but I put it through the planer thicknesser and I really like it. I think it’s tulip wood (poplar)? No idea what I will do with it yet! The...

Some while ago I had a table with a cast iron top. I think it was a Record Power one. I didn’t rate it very highly overall but the cast iron top was excellent. I am about to build a new router table and am looking for a cast iron top to base it all around. Anything considered. Thank you. John

Well, the more I get into the new/old saw I bought ( a Canadian King KC-10RC - see other threads) the more I think it’s going to be a great workshop saw so I want to invest in a good fence. Some while ago I invested in Steve Maskery’s excellent Workshop Essentials DVD’s. They taught me a lot...

Hi all. Continuing the saga of my new/old table saw, it has a splitter not a riving knife. It is hateful. Now I have the saw all cleaned and in pieces seems the ideal time to rectify this and fortunately, I found a YouTube vid of someone doing just that to what appears to be a similar saw. See...

Hi all, in another thread I have been talking about my purchase of an old table saw, sold into the Canadian market in the 90’s. It has a 60hz motor ( plate below). It is a simple machine with plenty of room for modification if necessary. The arbour speed wants to end up as 1450 rpm. It’s a 2hp...

I have just bought a replacement for my Makita 2704. I used to have an Axminster AW10 and had to sell it because I just couldn’t fit it into my workshop. I have more room now and I have been missing the solidity of a cast iron topped saw. Impulsive as ever I saw this and bought it does anyone...

Hi all, I have the above machine and overall I love it. It has many faults but none of them critical or damaging to the end result, which is excellent. I am looking at buying a new set of 56 cutters. I bought the machine secondhand, 18months old. It came with the little bag of goodies that...

Hi all, I am hopeful that someone on this forum can help me. I am trying to find some hold down fittings. The one in the photo is actually for my pencil sharpener but just happens to be perfect. I am trying to make my Banggood corner squares into clamped ones like these Drillpro Woodworking...

Hi guys, I know that a 1/2” router is desirable but what I have to hand is a Festool 1010 router. I need to cut a sweeping radius on the corner of some solid wood worktop. What I am THINKING of doing is this: Making a template from 12mm ply and using it to guide a jigsaw to say 5mm from the cut...

Hi all, I sort of hijacked a thread in the scrollsaw forum to ask this but I am sure this is where it should be. Where do you buy your wood generally, for example birch ply, oak, good quality and veneered MDF and even softwood? I live in Cheddar and am struggling to find a good timber merchant...

Hi All, Years ago we bought this table (and Chairs) from a shop that specialised in bringing container loads of used furniture from Scandinavia. Its really solid laminated oak. It has been well used over the years and is now a bit sad. The original varnish is patchy and flaking, the surface has...

Hi all, This is an ofshoot of my other post here about the 352 I just bought. I confess up front to being a bandsaw virgin an know little about the 352 but I am learning. You can see the upper blade guide in the pics. Its not standard I guess, does anyone recognise it? the only markings on it...

Hi Guys, Well, I have followed some of the advice on this great site and bought a Startrite 352 instead of more modern imported equipment. It feels good actually! I have to collect it and I need some advice about what will be needed. I have a Mercedes estate and, if necessary, a trailer (its a...

In another post I am asking for advice about power tool selection for a small workshop. My major acquisition so far, resulting from a rush of blood to the head when I visited Yandles, is the new Triton TWX workcenter. There was some logic because I already had a Triton router. Overall I am...