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Personally, I would definitely not use oak for a painted finish. It's relatively expensive, relatively hard to machine cleanly, and, once painted, looks just like plywood. I'd use either spruce ply with some sort of edge trimming, or laminated solid pine like...

I've been thinking of building a small CNC router to do fancy joints, like isoloc. Can the carvewright replace a dovetail jig, as well as carve?

Design the glue out. Use oak dowels through the tenons to pin the joints.

Thanks very much for all the advice, everyone.

Ah, so that's why they're called block planes. So something like http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx ... 1182,48942 would be suitable, yes? Bearing in mind that this may be a purhcase officially sanctioned by the household accounts department? :D

We have an end grain hard maple chopping block built into our kitchen. My wife burnt it. I sanded it out with a random orbit sander with rather poor dust collection, which left us both cleaning the kitchen for two hours. I'd like to take more off the block surface, to remove a decade's worth of...

Leave it exactly as is. Carpenters of centuries past would have left it, and you'd be treating it as a delightful feature today.

My wife saw a TV ad for "4-in-1 wood renovator", http://www.jmldirect.com/product.asp?pf ... 0renovator She threatens to use it on that damage in the utility room that I'll get around to fixing one year soon. Anyone know what's in this stuff? Something magic, or a fancy name for something...

Here's a supplier I've used. They were very friendly. http://www.mightonproducts.com/ Here's another. I've never used them. http://www.reddiseals.com/index.html

I do like the idea of cutting 7 the same and then custom fitting the eighth. However, trying to be clever, how about this? Cut eight chunks of thin MDF, maybe 6mm thick. Stack them all on top of one another in a neat pile. Set the saw to your best guess at 22.5 degrees. Cut the pile of MDF in...

Yes, here's the axminster product: http://www.axminster.co.uk/sessionID/IU ... -20301.htm £9.99 but even I struggle to find the enthusiasm to construct push blocks when I can buy then for £3 each.

No, no, no! One connector, not two! Close, but no cigar :-)

Is there some sensible reason why someone hasn't standardised a single hose connection with integrated electric supply? Just one click? Not even Festool do this! Do any hand-portable tools have one? Anyone even seen a patent application for one? Not even a concept router from Vauxhall?

Thanks to everyone who voted! As you can probably see from the results above, 60% of voters who expressed a preference opt for metric screws, 40% for imperial. 35% of all voters had no preference, or maybe use both, or something. At least the voting technology works!

Dear Chipp, I just noticed your signature Oh, yes, a man after my own heart. One of the saddest days when I heard B&D had bought ELU. Now, all we have is Festool :) Emrys Williams aka Inventor

That reminds me that one of my neighbours has an attachment for the back of his classic tractor, a big circular saw like this run from the tractor PTO, with a little sliding table. He bought it after an unfortunate experience cutting firewood with a chainsaw. It does produce a pretty good...

OJ innocently asked but perhaps understimates the number of flames he might receive here on measurement units. So, let's have a VOTE! Now, if only I can get this voting feature to work...

(1) Tripod - you photograph more slowly and take more time to assess the shots, and easily repeat the same shot with small changes (2) Diffuse lighting. Best is natural light from a cloudy sky. Indoors, use lots of lights spread about, but incandescent or strip lamps give red or green colour...

Ah, that seems different from This diagram. A crosscut produces a "transversal section" (Why not transverse?) and not a longitudinal section. To produce a tangential face, I cut with a tangential axis sitting in the plane of the saw. To produce a radial face, I cut with a radial axis sitting in...

If I drill parallel to a longitudinal axis, I'm drilling into end grain. If I drill along a radial axis, I'm drilling from bark to pith. If I drill along a tangential axis, I'm drilling...along a tangent :) OK? BUT! To produce a tangential face, I cut with a tangential axis sitting in the...