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Making a jig for cutting through dovetails on a router table. Works well but it seems very easy to get tear-out. Particularly on one side of the cut as the blade is leaving the wood on that side. Does anyone here use spiral cutter bits for this? Do they help? Edit: Can you even get spiral...

..to use on commercial oak veneered mdf? or is there a risk of the oil affecting the adhesive?

Relative newbie could use some advice.. If you want/need to make simple 80mm chunky square table legs by joining 2 bits of 80mm*40mm do you.... 1) Just glue, clamp and move on... || 2) Worry about the wood cupping over time so carefully arrange the grain.... (()) ..too prevent joint opening...

Could use some advice on building a pair of simple oak tables around 1400mm x 750/800mm with 30-40mm tops or at least tops that look that thick. I originally looked at buying an oak worktop or similar panel but they seem expensive compared to assembling my own which I've not done before. So main...

Is it possible to get rails/runners/accessories to fit the non-standard 15mm wide slots that this TS has? Otherwise I'm tempted to see if I can get a local engineering firm to machine them out to take a 3/4" track (assuming there is enough metal in the cast table).

I was about to get an oak beam from a temporary stash when my 7 year old son spotted this on the pile..

Got an 18 foot long oak beam arriving next week so I guess I'd better figure out how to work it! How do experts cut your 2" wide mortices? Google suggests the obvious method of drilling holes and squaring up with a chisel but what sizes holes do you go for? One site recommends using a 2"...

I have a piece of wood which I'm pretty sure is American White Oak. I would like to turn it the classic golden honey colour but looking for suggestions on how best to do that. Has anyone out there used Coloured Osmo Polyx on American White Oak? How did it turn out? I have some European oak...

Not my work. Discovered this on the web today. Thought you might be interested. Looks like a great little toy. Scroll down the page for a video of it running. http://woodgears.ca/air_engine/index.html

Sorry if firewood is a swear word here but.. Whats the going rate is for a seasoned hardwood logs in central england? Been quoted £130 for about 2 cubic meters loose/1.5 cubic stacked which I think weighs anything from 0.75 to 1.2 tons.

I'm wasting a lot of time trying to get the rotate tool to work right. How do I force it to rotate about a particular axis (eg the reg axis)? I know you can hold the shift key down to make the current axis sticky but I can't get the portractor to offer me the red axis in the first place! No...

Anyone know if it's possible to buy oak window frames suitable for a shed? Not an ordinary shed. This one's in a conservation area and will be clad in 1" thick waney edge boards. I'm reasonably handy and could probably make them but it would be nice to find some sill mouldings or ?? to reduce...

Is there a way to speed up the process or avoid the black and slimey stage? I'm just starting on an oak clad shed.

The manual for this mitre saw says... http://www.screwfix.com/prods/49979/Pow ... Mitre-Saw# . Good job it's only got to be approximately 19.05mm.

I have a 190mm Bosch 1200W circular saw and have been thinking of buying some more tools. Next job will be to build a "shed" which will involve cutting 6 x 2 rafters and quite a bit of framing. Upto now most of what I've done is smaller scale. With a budget of around £200. What would you...

Perhaps this is a question for people who frame roofs or do other large scale work... Say you need to cut lots of 90 degree half lap joints in 6" oak. Is this something you would use a sliding compound mitre saw for or would you use a circular saw? I've not owned a compound mitre saw and I'm...

Currently waiting for planning permission to build green oak framed shed the size of a single horse stable. Will eventually need to cut some large mortise and tennon joints for the frame and wondering how best to go about it. The frame will be 6" square oak. I can see how to cut the tenon with...

Recently submitted a planning application to get this project underway. Planning officer is making a site visit on Tuesday so wish me luck. It's an oak framed, tiled roof shed/garden store. Left hand side will house all my mowers and other garden machinery and the right hand will be a potting...

Anyone recommend where to buy off the shelf windows for a workshop/Garden store?

Can anyone recommend a good make of Dannish oil for exterior oak?