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Hi all. Has anyone recently purchased a cordless drill where the battery charger has a battery conditioning facility ? If like me you are just a hobby/diy user of cordless tools you eventually end up with perfectly good tools with knackered batteries due to periods of storage or inactivity and...

Hi all. As a hobby woodworker I'm not in a position to afford the luxury of the Festool MFT table, however I do intend to make my own top complete with dog holes and would like to be able to have one of my Triton tracksaw tracks on a hinge from the back of the surface top to lift up out of the...

Some time ago I purchased the Incra ibox finger joint jig but have not had a chance yet to use it and the main reasons are twofold, firstly the rail that slides in the table saw mitre track is too big for most if not all British/European slots and this means having to make a smaller rail perhaps...

Hi folks. Got rather an off the wall question here but I'd be interested to hear from all those who took up woodworking later in their lives, perhaps on retirement or after redundancy and how you found the learning curve, did you intend making a living from it or just purely for pleasure. How...

Hi Guy's. I'm aiming this question at those who have in the past repaired or refurbished a hand plane. I've recently come by a Record No4 smooth plane that needs a little TLC and one I have decided to clean up a small amount of light surface rust and re-varnish the wooden handles. Now the main...

I have several items of woodworking tools and machinery parts that have a thin black coating on them, a coating that I can only describe as being like engineers blue or a patina only its black. Now due to a lack of forethought on my part some of this coating has suffered some light rusting due...

Hi folks. I think we would all agree that the advent of cordless tool technology is brilliant for speed and freedom from the socket oulet but if like me you are an amateur/hobby woodworker you can find that it can be quite a while between uses of say a drill or circular saw, unlike tradesmen...

Hi folks. I'm after some opinions, a dangerous thing to do on social media but there you go. Some years ago I started to put together some tools and machines to make a small hobby workshop and for reasons I won't go into I had to shelve the idea until recently when I started to re-kindle my...

Maybe a silly question I know but a friend and I were discussing dovetail joints and he asked me how many DTs do you build into a given size of board and I couldn't tell him other than just how many looks pleasing to the eye. That then prompted me to ask is there a rule of thumb for how many you...

A bit of a story here folks, please hang in with me. Quite a number of years ago I had the idea of setting up a modest woodworking shop at my home to do small hobby jobs, box making, wood turning etc. This plan just got shelved and I don't really know why other than a lack of time or my bad...