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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...

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...

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...

I was trying to describe the direction to drill a hole - into end grain, through grain from bark to pith, tangential to growth rings... It strikes me that someone is bound to have defined a neat way of describing this. Are there recognised terms for these various directions? Is there a...

I'm working on some exterior softwood mouldings from a house built about 1840. I think the mouldings are original. I stripped off many layers of paint with Nitromors, but what seems to be the very first coat is different. Nitromors doesn't touch it at all, no matter how long left. It's a very...

I'm thinking of a major upgrade and wondering about a Triton TRB001 router to dedicate to a Record Power RPMS-R table. I see several comments saying generally nice things about these, but it's about £500, so it had better be good! Do these tools, jointly or severally, work well? Does the sliding...

A while back, Axminster Power Tool added a "review" feature to their website. Every product can have reviews from customers. I happily contributed a number of middling-to-excellent reviews of various tools, which Axminster put on their website. I then posted an excoriating review of a tool I...

Combined counterbore-countersink-drill bits are pretty common, such as http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-Tren ... -22341.htm but (a) they concentrate on drilling an adjustable depth pilot hole for the screw thread rather than a clearance hole for the screw body (b) they are all for ye olde...

Has anyone experience of using boron products as wood preserver? There are several sites offering them in the UK, and the safety data is great. "Fine Homebuilding" reckons they're wonderful but that they leach out of the wood over time. Anyone know how long boron stays effective in a painted or...