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Hi, Silly question, gets asked all the time, but IMPOSSIBLE to search for since we don't have a Newbie section, and the words 'beginner' and 'wood' feature so very heavily on a woodworking forum... indeed, the first 70 or so search results were all about what lathe to buy!! So yeah, since I...

No, not that kind of stripper, although if you know any really good ones I'm also interested... As a surprise for someone special, I've acquired an antique/vintage/old rocking chair, which I'm told is in pine. The wood itself looks in good nick but as with many antiques, some heathen has...

My best mate showed me some videos about what his cousin (a sailor, boat-builder and writer) is currently up to - I thought people might find it interesting... "Well, I’ve gone and done something very silly. I’ve bought Tally Ho. She cost me £1, and she’s not quite ‘ready-to-go’. She’s a...

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My workshop roof is leaking..... The previous owner built this roughly 4x7m garage-y thing using concrete uprights, with concrete slats slotted in, metal angled triangle roof support thingies (trusses, are they called?) and 18mm plywood with roofing felt over the top. Unfortunately, it looks...

Had a search of the forum, but found nothing particularly illuminating... I just wondered if there's a resource anywhere that explains the reason/purpose of all the parts and features of a handsaw? Some things are obvious, like the back, the toe, the teeth, the skew... but what about bits like...

The vice I recently bought came to me with 3-4 thick layers of gloss paint over the top... No problem, I thought. Couple coats of Nitro-Mors to blister all the gack off, finish with a wire brush and just paint it properly. Nope... I was unaware that Nitro-Mors had changed their recipe to a...

Someone in another thread mentioned some old books on past-and-present stuff in woodworking that I've just leafed through, and I noticed that most of the people depicted had big ol' mustaches. More so the old period pics and drawings/paintings, especially in Germany... but even a few 80s photos...

I just had a week off work, specifically to have a crack at building myself a proper workbench. As a woodworking newb, I figured I really ought to start with something solid to work wood on. Got a load of wood in, made up a pair of sawhorses, prepped the boards, got gluing up and then went on...

Just wanted to give a shout-out to the guys at Creffields for their excellent service, today. http://www.creffields.co.uk/ They were very cool with me just rocking up at their offices last week and placing a very small order of PAR softwood (barely enough for a workbench and set of sawhorses...

Morning.... Spent several hours on the phone with a friend last night. He's just paid off his mortgage and will be moving to a new house, while doing up both at the same time. He's a bit of an oddball and slightly eccentric - IT guru in terms of app support and programming Windows/Linux/Unix...

Evening, For Christmas, some kind soul gave me an old Record 050-C plane. Bit tatty and 'patinary', but no actual rust or anything and the plastic wallet has all 12 cutters for beading, grooving, etc. Looks like it should clean up nicely. I'm still digging up information on how it's all used...

Afternoon all, Something I'm struggling with in a current Newbie project is how to cut a recess in my oak panel for a 1mm thick A4 sized piece of sheet steel... and I would welcome any suggestions the forum might have!! Until I manage to win the hand routers I'm bidding on, I'm limited to a...

Heya, In my efforts to just get started on woodworking, I'm picking up a fair bit of second hand kit cheap. Likely it will need sharpening and I will get some nice top end 3x8 stones once I have the scratch. In the meantime I just need something good enough, but cheap enough to do the basics...

I was woken this morning by the Mrs, bearing happy news that I have a bandsaw of some kind on it's way to me... However, our concrete garage is currently old and full of holes, with the floor getting a little on the damp side. I'm worried about this lovely new machine getting rusty. The...

Ended up in a local 'antiques' shop over the weekend, mainly for the Mrs to browse the tat that is more like a charity shop than actual antiques (didn't know DVDs were that old)... but of course, I had to stop in the tool corner. A lot of items, but not much in usable nick, I was sorry to...

I've been tasked with making some sets of "platonic solid" shapes... They want "several sets each comprising a Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron and an Icosahedron", plus a pair of Decahedrons (specifically a pentagonal trapezohedron), which I'm told is non-platonic. Or in general...

Heya, me again. I've been looking around at various books, Kindles, online blogs, YouTube vids, and of course the downloads thread on here, seeing what I can pick up that may be of interest as I find my way. The books/Kindles are a bit of a struggling point as, without buying them all, I...

Back in the days when they still taught woodwork as a subject in schools... We had a number of bench-mounted saws. They were like scroll saws but had longer arms, bigger squarer tables with guide fences and mitre blocks, and used quite deep jigsaw blades. They were awesome at straight cuts, but...

Hello, I didn't see a dedicated area for Newbie Intros, but since it seems to be the custom on forums, I thought I'd say hello anyway... I'm Tasky, from Reading, just starting to get serious about my DIY and woodwork. Up until now I've gotten by with a pair of drills, a Dremel™, a little...