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Another quick question please everyone: As I don't have a framing nailer would screws be okay for the joist hangers or should I really be nailing them?

That's a good point that I hadn't considered. I think I will take the opportunity to install a water butt as I don't really have anywhere else suitable around the garden for one. That's really helpful, thanks. I don't have a framing nailer and so skew nailing the joists to the wall plate isn't...

Thanks everyone for your input - I think I'm going to do option B but with 7 x 2 timber and cut the required angle in as per @MARK.B. suggestion to save me faffing around with making extra furring strips. 7 x 2 with a 1:60 fall still leaves me with a joist height of around 132mm at the thin...

Hey everyone, I am building a lean-to type structure a the side of my house. On the one side I have a retaining wall on top of which I have added a normal stud wall type frame using treated 4 x 2 CLS timber. The span required for the joists is 2m and so will probably go with 6 x 2 C16 for...

Brilliant find - ordered! Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks, everyone for your input. Something like this? How big a gap would you use? 3mm? (Guess it depends on how wet the timber is at the time of the build, right?) This looks great! My gate will be a lot less decorative and much more utilitarian I'm afraid. Will do. Recently started...

Looking for a bit of advice, please. I need to build a garden gate to replace one that’s practically fallen apart. I’m going to build the frame from treated 2x4 which will be morticed and tenoned pretty much as shown in this series of videos (although I will be cutting the mortices with a...

I'm the same. Doesn't even have to be nice old tools for me, just old tools fascinate me. I remember when I was a boy I would always nag my Grandad (Taid) to give me a tour of his garage where he has accumulated decades and decades worth of old stuff. Some of it old tools and some of it...

I'll let you know - I'm going to try and clean up one for nostalgia's sake and I've offered first refusal on anything I'm not keeping to my father-in-law and brother in-law. 6lb'er it would seem. Dare not swing it in anger because the handle is coming loose. :ROFLMAO: Will definitely be trying...

Thanks for everyone's input. I'm still slowly working through it all! I grew up in Llantrisant so no Pontyclun really well. Spent many a happy night in the Brunel in my youth! Thanks for the info on the saw, I will keep an eye out as I go through the boxes in case any of the other blades show...

My parents are currently in the process of clearing out my Grandparent's houses (both sets) as they are both currently on the market and will be sold soon and I asked for any tools to be sent my way before they got chucked out. I am now in possession of an assortment of old tools, boxes and...

Thanks for the heads up on this one @Rob_Mc - I've just been and grabbed 10 on my way home as I am planning an MFT style bench and hope to use these for clamping to the side of the bench where I was initially thinking of installing t-track. There doesn't seem to be the problem @petermillard...

I suppose the other thing - now that I am thinking it through (please, someone correct if I'm wrong) - is that it's more important to have a completely flat stone when using a honing guide v freehand? If the stone is dished and the wheel is referencing off a hollow spot, then the angle at the...

Ah yes, thanks! That does make sense.

Wow, I really did open a can of worms! Well I'm working my way through the chisels and have taken note and this is much more like it I think. Took hardly any time at all to create the secondary bevel once the primary was ground so I can see how easy it will be too keep sharp now with regular...

That seems like a good test of sharpness and it's definitely doing that. I think my takeaway from this thread will be that if it cuts well and is sharp then it's right. As you say, there is so much sharpening gadgetry & jargon out there it's so easy to feel like you are doing it wrong. While...

It does, very well it would seem! I take your point though, that's the only thing that matters, right. It's very easy to overthink these things when you are inexperienced and there is so much information out there and all the various "systems".

I've read through as many of the sharpening threads as I can over the last couple of days so I will keep this very specific as I know there is a wealth of general information on here already on this topic but I'd like to ask people's opinions on what size I should be making the secondary bevel...

Thoroughly enjoyed both of those videos for different reasons! The second one is bonkers and now I really want to buy his book!

I have a couple of very nice mechanical pencils but they are 0.5mm lead and so a little too thin to be of practical use when marking on wood (at least that's what I've found). The line they make is obviously great but I find lead that thin has a tendency to break fairly often. So I've recently...