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Oooops! pressed send by mistake. The long piece is about 1500mm long and 80mm in diameter. Interesting how the exposed surface turns orange as soon as the bark is stripped. Any thoughts gratefully received.

Has anyone got any suggestions for what to make with these recently pruned bits of our quince tree?

'It's a big 'ole that putty can't fill' - the favourite saying of an old painter/decorator I used to know. He'd insert it as often as possible into building site conversations and not always in relation to decorating...........

Giddyup!

40+ year-old Condor Heritage which, like Trigger's broom, has had the equivalent of seven new heads and five new handles. Current incarnation has a 2 x 12 Campag Chorus groupset (minus the brakes). Wife has a 30 year-old mixte Evans (from before they became corporate). She has been commuting...

I know the OP does not have space in the cupboard below, but I thought others might be interested in the kitchen food mixer cantilever device that I use to store my Tormek. It has a positive lock in the open position and is spring counterbalanced. I made a simple zinc tray to contain any water...

I've forgotten where this is from unfortunately, but I suspect the class will find it amusing and informative: Wood Beechwood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year, Chestnut’s only good they say, If for logs ’tis laid away. Make a fire of Elder tree, Death within your house...

Thank you Jacob and Mathew. Sound advice and easy to follow - do nothing for now! I'll get on with the shooting board and give it a go......... What a wonderful resource this forum is. Thanks again.

I bought this chap the other day: Apart from the fact that I've long wanted to own one of these 'Transitionals', I thought that a wooden body would sit well in a long shooting board that I plan to make. Of course, sight unseen is always a bit of a risk and in this case the body is not...

Here's Snoopy in an artistic pose. He's a rescue dog - 75% greyhound and 25% stupid. He loves people - particularly kids (they drop food), is nervously antisocial with other dogs and a complete psycopath when it comes to anything small and furry like squirrels and rats. He has lightning...

I know this is not oak but, following on from the Ironballs suggestion of torsion boxes, I made these for a client last year: Not torsion boxes either but ply-faced hollow core doors. Cut to size (2 shelves per door), keeping the front and one end, inserting and glueing softwood batten in the...

In a recent issue of British Woodworking (Dec/Jan) there was a piece about someone finding a second-hand York Tipper. This prompted me to order one from York in Czechoslovakia via Axminster. They regularly order York vices and so I avoided what would have been silly carriage charges. Here are...

Well, after absorbing all the very useful advice I went ahead and attached the arch to a simple sled that I had knocked together some time ago (it was made so that I could clamp drawer sides vertically when using a corner lock cutter against the fence on the router table). The sled gave me the...

Thanks for the advice guys. That's given me a lot to ponder.......... I'll leave it till the weekend then try again.

Help! In trying to rout a smooth arch in 35mm thick beech I had a little snatch (no damage done) and now I've lost my bottle. I'm using a top bearing cutter running against a 12mm mdf template which is screwed to the top of the beech. The beech has been jigsawed so that it is about 3mm bigger...

In my post above (with the router table pics) I said I rotated the workpiece in a clockwise direction. That should have been anticlockwise, or widdershins. Sorry.

Router table: and little tenons: Making the shoulder the same on all four sides obviously simplifies matters - same depth of cut all round. I take a first cut up one edge of the tenon then flip the workpiece once clockwise and complete the next face. This avoids any breakout. No points...

Chris - that's probably this system: (I did a quick leaf through the printed catalogue and scanned the page) The trouble is that it has a floor track and Darren said Central Commitee was against floor track. I suppose any system that guides the doors to finish flush is bound to need a...

Darren Hafele: http://www.hafele.com/uk/ have a comprehensive range of sliding/folding door gear. I think you will have to register (free - no strings) to access their online catalogue. They usually claim to be able to send most stuff out within 3 days. It is often worth phoning them with...

Dave If it is black granite then don't consider trying to polish across a filled hole. The received wisdom is to fill the hole (if it is deep) with epoxy - araldite would do - making sure none gets on to the surface. Then build-up to the surface carefully with black gloss paint. Use a blade to...