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Hi folks, I bought a second-hand PT260 at the end of last year. Unfortunately, I have been bogged down with house renovation and haven't touched it since. I am now seeing the end of the renovation so I am looking into organising the garage and need a chip extractor. Space is premium, and I...

I have been doing woodworking for a few years using mainly hand tools but lived close to a cabinet-making workshop that I could when I had bigger jobs. However, I have recently moved into my first owned house which has a single garage and I am planning to make my woodworking workshop. I want...

Clifton No. 7 jointer plane. Bought new from Axminster at the end of July. Used a few times but otherwise as good as new. £355 collection from Cambridge or I can post at buyers cost

Hi folks, I bought a dewalt DW733 thicknesser a few months back that I have been using by moving it into the garden every time I need to use and it is getting tiresome and being weather dependent does not help either. So I am considering moving it permanently to the garage. The problem is...

Hi Folks, I have bought a Record Power DS300 disc sander a couple of weeks ago and just had the chance to play with it this weekend. However, I wasn't able to get end grain to plane square which I initially attributed to the sandpaper not been glued uniformly across the disc as I could see...

I am in need of building a veneer press and want to use a piece of carpet underlay to go in the sandwich. Any chance anyone has a piece of about 300x200 they could post?

I am currently going through making the boxes on Andrew's Crawford book "Book of Boxes: Design and Construction: The Complete Practical Guide to Design and Construction". However the 4th box on the book uses a Piano hinge on 6mm box walls but I can't find anything that small anywhere. Does...

Hi all, I have bound WFH for a few months and have decided my next project is going to be a Laptop stand. It all started very simply, 2 parallel sides dovetailed with to an angled top. I did a prototype in plywood to decide on the height and found it to be too boxy. So I have gone to sketch up...

Hello everyone, I am an hobbyist woodwork that mainly uses handtools. Lately, I have been using a local furniture maker workshop whenever I need to dimension rough stock but with the current COVID-19 situation it may be a while before I am able to visit again. Which got me thinking the best...

I am planning to transform the following pieces of elm into a live edge coffee table but because of the way it is going to be used, I am thinking of filling the gaps and burrs with epoxy resin. There are also some areas with rot that I need to clean before adding the resin. What is the best...

Hi everyone, Recently my vacuum has gone kapu in spectacular fashion since somehow the switch button half melted. I am guessing this must have been caused by a short on the switch itself since everything else seems to be working. As you probably know to try to get spares for anything no...

Right, I think the time has come to accept I need a shooting board. I have watched several youtube videos but what makes a good one from a bad one is still unclear to me. Does anyone has good recommendations for a set of plans I could use?

I am on the market for a ROS as my cheap LIDL one leaves me uncomfortable shaking for several minutes after sanding due to the vibration. Question is which one? I want to mainly use for sanding after planning and so does not need to remove a lot a material fast as I can do that with a plane...

I am building my knockdown workbench and have assembled and flattened the top where I am now ready for finishing. However, there is still a lot of places where I can see planing marks and was thinking of hitting those with a ROS before applying Osmo. Is this a good idea or is there a better...

Hi everyone, I have been trying to salvage any usage out of my Triton but I am not sure that is really a possibility so before I throw the damn thing on the bin I thought I would double check to see if anyone has any device. I bought the router a couple of years back and always had problems...

Hi everyone I thought I would start here yet another workbench build project. My plan is to "replicate" Chris Schwarz knockdown bench he purposes on his book. The reason for that is that I use my garage which is shared with several other uses so the possibility to disassemble it flat was the...

Hi everyone, I am thinking in building my own version of the Knowckdown Nicholson Workbench proposed by Chris Schwarz (https://blog.lostartpress.com/2014/09/1 ... workbench/). However, I cannot seem to find the hardware he uses to attaches the pieces together. He calls them Ductile mounting...

Hi everyone, It has been pretty clear to me over the past few weeks that my current setup of plywood board on top of saw horses needs to be replaced with a proper workbench. However, due to space limitations, I need it to be both an MFT/track saw table and an assembly table. I saw that...

Hi everyone, I embarked on the woodworking journey a while back with your help. I have mainly been building plywood cabinets and so far my track saw and router have been more than enough for the stuff I was building. However, I am now upgrading for simple plywood boxes to building frames and...

Hi guys, I have started wood working with your help for almost a year now and I am now at the point where I want to step out of the basic joints and would really appreciate having a router table. Question is which one? My router is a Triton MOF001 which as I understand should be no problem to...