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Turns out most of them are still there, but apparently unavailable from the Axminster website. This Google site search turns up a load...

This sort of thing? https://woodworkersworkshop.co.uk/collections/pinnacle Dieter Schmid has a wider selection: https://www.fine-tools.com/wooden-hand-screw-clamp.html They turn up on eBay from time to time, although prices can be ridiculous.

Can't help feeling the original point of the thread has been lost (possibly not for the first time). The holy grail of steel rulers (for me) is one side being metric and the other being imperial. And - important this - it should be left-reading on one edge, and right-reading on the other. If...

Well, we're well into Boxing Day, but season's greetings to all, and to all a good boot sale!!

Well, we know they're not a fine tool, but I quite like mine for taking the surface off a piece of painted or otherwise nasty, gritty, wood, of which I use quite a lot. And mine is one of the few tools I have of my dad's, so there's that. Each to their own, eh? And in case there's anyone who...

English Heritage produced a good guide to the trade and workshops of Shoreditch, which is available as a PDF at the Historic England website here: https://content.historicengland.org.uk/ ... eneer.pdf/ Lots of good info and pictures. I just missed the end of the era - in the 1980s I used to...

I was there on Sunday, and much saddened by its rumoured demise. I first went about 15 years ago, and it was that visit that got me started on the woodworking journey. I believe it was Andrew Crawford's boxes that did it but, like Glynne, I've always been inspired by the other exhibitors...

I think you may have misread, or misunderstood. The story is not that the chocolate was changed (old news) but that new trade research says the change has cost Cadbury around £6m in lost sales (new news).

Well, they are Starrett :D. And less than 90 quid on Amazon UK. (There's only one Starrett tool in my workshop, which is a tiny-but-beautiful 4-inch engineer's square that cost something like a tenner from eBay).

Thought someone would have posted this by now, but I'll de-lurk long enough to do so. Chris Schwarz does an Anarchist Woodworker's Gift Guide every year. All of them are gathered here: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodw ... gift+guide A few are somewhat over budget but not by much.

Apropos recent threads on people dropping out of the UK Workshop forum, I really thought I'd posted my last here, but... here I am posting in support of everything Jacob has said in this thread. Jeez, another glass or two of Malbec and I'll probably buy a copy of The Guardian in the morning...

Wouldn't argue with anything Matthew says, except a slight quibble here. Coarse-toothed ripsaws will wreak havoc when cutting across the grain, but fine-toothed ripsaws (like a dovetail saw) make perfectly good crosscuts. I have an Adria 15tpi dovetail saw that I use for crosscutting small stock...

You might find some of the information here useful: http://logancabinetshoppe.com/blog/2009/07/episode-4/

If you're patient eBay will turn up some candidates. If you care to swap time for money you can get 'em here: http://www.1066tools.co.uk/tools/Rosewo ... e_Set.html

Oil isn't a film finish. As for wood needing to be waterproof before an oil finish will work, that's news to me. Anyway, here's one company offering garden benches in beech: http://www.edwardbulmer.co.uk/category. ... be72f2a839 Here's another (the bench and tabletop)...

See this for attaching table tops: http://www.finewoodworking.com/pages/w00173.asp The key thing is to allow the top to move across the width - if you fix it tightly to the base something somewhere is going to split.

If you've already built them, I'd seal the end-grain with clear epoxy and put a couple/three coats of quality outdoor oil-based finish on them and call it good. Assuming you've allowed for wood movement in the design of the top, and you keep the end-grain of the legs out of the water, I can't...

There's a few here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/honitonclocks ... 50c&_sop=2 No connection, etc.

Well, I'd say that's one of the finest boxes I've seen in a while. Beautifully understated (glad you abandoned the box stringing) and the details are stunning. As is that walnut. =D>

All of life - and I mean, all of life - is a trade of money for time and time for money. I'm not sure that the way some of us spend our time makes us more intelligent than the way some people spend their money.