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  1. peter-harrison

    Recommend drawer runners

    Blum or Grass. I am not so keen on Accuride as they aren't as smooth and are much less tolerant of slight inaccuracies in fitting.
  2. peter-harrison

    Chisel id please

    My theory is that they are just normal firmer chisels. They were made deep because if they were thin they would be bendy under normal usage.
  3. peter-harrison

    Spindle Moulders!

    Reverse rotation is very useful- I probably use it about 10% of the time. It's mostly best, as you say, when you want to use the cutter upside down. Suppose you want to use a profile that appears on the top corner of the cutter if it's mounted normally. Now suppose that you want to mould a bunch...
  4. peter-harrison

    Help finding a fitting

    I would usually agree, but there's a bit more to them than that- they have flattened and shaped ends, and I would have to make 16 of them, identical, in a woodwork shop with rudimentary metalworking equipment. My client has deep pockets and is happy to pay for quality.
  5. peter-harrison

    Wood movement

    Nice box! I'm not sure how much help acclimatising will be as the tensions are there in the box, waiting to be released. However, it wouldn't do any harm and might well work. Re the first box, is there any reason why you can't plane a little bit off the RH front corner, so as to close up that gap?
  6. peter-harrison

    Help finding a fitting

    Perfect, thanks!!
  7. peter-harrison

    Help finding a fitting

    Thanks Phil- I'm looking for plain but quality.
  8. peter-harrison

    Help finding a fitting

    Hi, I'm looking for some of those brass L-shaped things that you get on music rests, to hold the pages in place. What they are called would be a start!
  9. peter-harrison

    Festool ETS EC 150/5 sander - Anyone willing to compare to mine?

    The first Festool sander I bought (not the same model as yours) was very vibey and I took it back. They said that the main bearing was sticky and replaced it. This fixed the problem.
  10. peter-harrison

    Tenon repair

    I think I'd try to keep the intact bits of the tenon as it's a majority of the width. I'd sandwich the tenon with 2 bits of scrap clamped together, and then use a slightly oversize drill to drill through the tenon where the holes are and about 25mm into the endgrain, then glue in some dowels and...
  11. peter-harrison

    Quotation help

    I've had many of those "how much?!" moments. Over the years I've developed the habit of just entering things on an Excel spreadsheet, and not looking at the bottom line until iI've finished. Sometimes it looks too little! I have given up trying to guess what my clients think will be a reasonable...
  12. peter-harrison

    Panel optimiser?

    The other aspect of it is that I use the program for preparing quotes- and of course because I don't get all the jobs I quote for, this is the majority of what I use the program for! And as I don't have that stack of boards to work through, if I didn't use the program, I'd have to draw them out...
  13. peter-harrison

    Another mystery tool, maybe not so mysterious!

    My first thought was that it is a bale hook.
  14. peter-harrison

    Panel optimiser?

    I don't know.. I've done it both ways, a lot! Basically, for 20 years up to about 10 years ago I did it your way, and for the last 10 years or so I've used the optimiser for most jobs apart from ones with figured timber or where the grain is a big deal such as table tops, drawer fronts etc. I am...
  15. peter-harrison

    Panel optimiser?

    I retract the previous comments! I was using Cutlist which has a similar title on a browser. Opticut seems good. Thanks. Pete
  16. peter-harrison

    Panel optimiser?

    I have had a go with it, it's ok- a bit slow and the diagrams are hard to read (I use panel optimising for timber as well as sheet materials, at the moment I'm cutting some 5 meter boards and the diagrams opticutter produces are almost unreadable. Maybe I'll just have to relearn the art of...
  17. peter-harrison

    Panel optimiser?

    Hi, has anyone got a good one of these to recommend? Preferably free and downloadable!
  18. peter-harrison

    Maxcut users beware

    I just updated Maxcut only to find that they have removed some useful features for the free version, plus some of what's left doesn't work as well.
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