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Hello, sort one thing and another crops up, keen to get my plane irons as sharp as possible I invested in a small piece of float glass, different grades of abrasive sheets and double sided tape. It worked, plane irons unbelievably sharp and a pleasure to use. I now need to replace my abrasive...

Hello, still learning! I have got the patio table and chairs out which were purchased from M&S a couple of years ago, made in Indonesia, the parts not exposed to the sun are still the original brown finish, the top has gone a dirty grey, I gave it two coats of teak oil hoping to bring the...

Hello All, hopefully this is the right place to post this, after many weeks of research I am about to plan my new workbench, however, I am ever so slightly confused, I am right-handed and have always cut to the right -hand of the vice, and line. Virtually all workbenches have the vice on the...

Hello, hopefully this is the right place to post this, I need to drill some 10mm holes (12 in all) in the centre of some 25mm x 1200mm dowelling, it needs to be square, I know my limitations!! Can anyone help, prepared to travel if need be, thanks, Andrew

Hello All, just taken up woodworking and I have a question, I need to glue some rough sawn timber, long grain to long grain, and as the joining faces are quite rough should I plane them first. It will have what I call an 'Agricultural' finish so neatness is not that important, cheers, Andrew