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Hi, What would be the recommendation for a cracked stair tread? It's the two treads where the stairs turn the corner (see images). If I got them out without destroying them, do you think a repair would work, or just replace them? Also any tips on creak removal for a couple of the other...

Hi, I have this WG200-PK/A 8" Wet Stone Sharpening System Package Deal and the wheel is starting to get thin. I'm preempting it going and looking for a spare wheel but they don't appear to exist! Does anyone know of a replacement 8" wheel for it? I can find the 10" wheels, but the price of...

Anyone know what this maker mark is… Cheers

Hi, I've never used a wooden mallet before and after reading a thread here I decided I wasn't a real man until I had a wooden mallet, so I made one. I liked the look of one made by Rex Krueger on YouTube but I didn't follow it religiously and ended up making the job more complicated by putting...

I bought an old bench drill yesterday. It was all running lovely before I bought it and drove it home! Now it keeps tripping - as in the trip that is inside the start / stop button housing …. This isn’t my strong point and I’ve never seen anything like those two fuses. They look like...

I've not posted for a while so I thought I'd throw something up on my last project. I wanted something I could do quickly and I also wanted to learn SketchUp so I followed a great guide at Sketchup for Woodworkers and after a few hours I felt comfortable with it and went about designing a bench...

After seeing a reply to a hammer thread today linking to Kinetic Customs it got me thinking what other hand made British tool makers are still going like that? I couldn't buy a hammer at those prices or I'd end up with it inserted somewhere, but they are nice to look at! I know of Skelton Saws...

About 2 years ago I somehow agreed to (got roped into) make a cake stand for the other half's sister's wedding. At the time it sounded simple enough, she wanted 4 tiers on branches of part of a cut-down tree. Now I have just over a year to go and panic has set in! The main difficulty is...

I've been building my first workbench using only hand tools and posting my progress here ... https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/yet-another-english-style-workbench-build.124501/ I'm a complete beginner, but things have gone quite well up until building the face vice. This is my second...

I recently decided to move from an utter noob and upgrade to complete novice by building my own workbench. I was off work due to the lockdown so what better opportunity. The only problem was I started looking on places like this to decide what style bench to build, what material to use, what...

Hi, Does anyone know where you would get a nice big wooden vice screw and nut in the UK? I can only find them in the US. I'm checking benches on eBay that might have salvageable bits on. Something like the lake Erie tool works screws in the US I haven't got the tooling or skills to even...