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Having restored my father-in-law’s old tool chest, I’m now checking out the chisels that were in it. There’s quite a range, including 5 Stormont crank gouges and a couple of Marples (and a very fine Marples straight gouge) chisels from Woodcock, Wallins, Ward, and Marples, an Addis swan neck and...

I’ve picked this broken cheeseboard while clearing Dad’s old house. It’s been repaired twice, the second time with a splice and lots of ?araldite. I don’t want to throw it away, it was such a lovely piece, but I’m not sure how I can make a presentable joint with a third repair. Any ideas?

Newbie alert; I just retired and took up woodworking. My first solo project is the restoration of my late father-in-law’s tool chest. He was an engineer’s pattern maker for a printing works, the chest is probably his apprentice piece from the 1950s (although some of the tools were older as they...