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    What we've lost

    AA Gill of the Sunday Times is not everyone's cup of tea, but I think he hit it out of the park today with this small polemic:
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    Anti-vibration mats

    Anyone have any thoughts/experience of rubber mats as a means of reducing machine vibration? I've just made a small cupboard/bench to take my drill press and although the construction is as rugged and heavy as I could make it (lots of construction lumber, ply and MDF) I'm still a little...
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    Auger file

    Anyone know of a UK source for an auger file? I'm sure I came across one a while ago, but - inevitably - now that I want to buy one I can't find it. I know there are several places in the US, that have them but it seems a lot of hassle for a simple tool.
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    eBay and blades

    Anyone else fallen foul of eBay's new policy regarding 'knives and similar items'? I was watching a nice saw at the weekend, but when I tried to make a bid I got an eBay screen asking for my credit card details. I've never seen that before, and don't have a card registered with eBay so was...
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    French tool museum

    Last week I was in the French Alps skiing and on Saturday, on the long drive back to the UK, made an overnight stop in the medieval town of Troyes. Heading out of the hotel for dinner, I spotted a leaflet with old tools on the cover. Here's what I found...
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    Setting up a grinder

    Those of you with good memories will recall recent discussions on hand-cranked grinders. In the latest, I commented on the difficulty of removing a rusted nut in order to swap the old grinding wheel for a new one. Eventually I resorted to the Dremel-&-cutoff-wheel and I'm now ready to set up...
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    April PopWoodworking

    Any of the UK subscribers had their issue of the above yet? Given the perennial problems of international delivery, I'm not sure whether it's late yet, or not. It's only this week that I received the latest issue of Woodworking; I thought PopWoodworking had mailed before that. Or am I mistaken?
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    Help needed

    Hi all, My daughter's primary schoolteacher, on learning that I did some woodworking, asked if I could help her with a piece needed for a restoration her husband is undertaking. Unfortunately, it's a turned part and I've never done turning, don't have a lathe, and have no room in the workshop...
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    Another take on toolboxes

    While posting to Rob's (Woodbloke's) thread on filling holes in his chisel collection, I was googling Yeung Chan - the guy who made the specialist chisels I was looking for - and came across a new-to-me website that has much of interest here: http://www.daikudojo.org/Archive/howtos/ Lots of...
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    Unusual auger bits

    Spent the last day or so derusting and cleaning several bunches of bits acquired from eBay over the last few months and came across a couple of unusual design. They're what I thought of as 'shell augers'; however, after spending several hours googling that term I've come up with nothing like...
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    A voyage round my shop

    Some time ago (blimey... July 2004 :oops: ) I said I'd post some pics of the shop. Finally remembered to grab the camera while it was charged and grabbed these. At least now, compared with three years ago, there are more tools to look at :). The shop is an old garage attached to the house -...
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    Wood storage and black pipe

    I'm looking to solve my wood storage problems. An extensive google on the subject has turned up a couple of ideas that should work nicely. However... Many of the US designs employ black pipe (or galvanized pipe) set into drilled timber. There's one bit of my space-challenged workshop where this...
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    This is a saw

    With regard to recent threads on large saws, here's one that rapidly went beyond my meagre budget. This is a saw Pete
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    Oh happy day

    Shop time today for the first time since before Christmas :shock: Nothing major... a bit of tidying; a fair bit of de-rusting and cleaning on a Stanley 72 I bought nearly a year ago; cleaned and sharpened a big 1-1/2 inch Marples firmer bought about the same time; and did a bit of final...
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    What I've Learned

    Tony's design threads have certainly generated a lot of responses. Having read through both threads carefully, I thought I might summarise the useful things I learned. 1. We all like different things. 2. If we dislike something, £7,000 is obviously far too expensive; something we like is...
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    Galootish goodness

    There's a good video by David Marks up on the US DIY Channel website, devoted to handtools and the sharpening thereof. An enjoyable and informative way to pass a half-hour :) Point your browser here
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    To our American cousins

    To the Mighty Wenzloff and all our colleagues on yon side of the Atlantic, Happy Thanksgiving :occasion5:
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    Chair design

    This is more in the way of general musing rather than an urgent project, but I have a vague hankering for a chair design/plan/inspiration. A lot of my computing is done of an evening, on a laptop at the dining table. There are several things wrong with this... the table is almost precisely the...
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    Inside Krenov's workshop

    The US DIY Network (which shows the David Marks series) has upgraded its video offerings, and there's a cool episode of Woodworks up right now. Marks visits James Krenov and Art Espenet Carpenter, and talks about woodworking in general, design aesthetics, wood selection and more. There are also...
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    Worth a visit

    Here's a web destination worth your time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rigoletto/ Beautiful guitars and great photography - and some truly drool-worthy shots of his workspace, his wood stash, and some of his hand tools :D
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